DESIGN AWARD OF MERIT

General Mills Corporate Headquarters, Minneapolis, MN
oslund.and.assoc., Minneapolis, MN
Client: General Mills

Stunning, seamless coming together of old and new. . . Good relationship achieved between the landscape and the setting . . .
           2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments

The General Mills corporate campus is a statement of 1950s modernism juxtaposed against a pastoral landscape. With the acquisition of the Pillsbury Corporation, the campus needed to expand substantially to accommodate the influx of new employees. The landscape architect was charged with creation of a setting for the expansion to accommodate a new 324,000 square foot office building, a 138,000 square foot employee services building, and a 1,750-space parking structure. The landscape architect’s goal was to create the illusion that the new buildings were floating within the landscape atop a motionless plane of water.