O2 Design

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O2 Design (formerly oslund.and.assoc.) specializes in landscape architecture, master planning and environmental design. The success of the firm has been guided by extraordinary clients, inspired partners, a talented staff, and an unwavering passion for design. At O2 Design, the idea of shaping a landscape has entailed not only providing a place for social, physical, and intellectual interaction, but it’s also about sculpting open space into an artful form that acts as a breath within its given context.

Established, 1998

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Stone-filled gabions face embankment walls on both sides of the River, reflecting the site’s industrial past.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The steep banks of the floodplain proved to be a design challenge to this goal, but also an opportunity to traverse the dramatic topography of the Mississippi River Floodplain below St. Anthony Falls.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The greenscape planted with Englemann Ivy, adds green to the landscape, while also cooling these surfaces and reducing their contribution to the urban heat island effect in the summer.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Approaches to the bridges were also reconstructed along with various local streets adjacent to the project, and observation decks under the bridge along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Early designs featured a narrow platform that cantilevered from the South Bank, between the bridge piers over the river. This design was later converted to a second plaza that mirrors the North Bank, closer to the water.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Full-scale mock-ups helped designers and the Visual Quality team to select the locally quarried stone and gabion baskets that best complimented nearby limestone outcrops and architecture.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The early focus of the project was to draw people to the water’s edge – a new public space on the Mississippi River.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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35 W Remembrance Garden ALBUM

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Upon entering the garden the visitor encounters a set of solid stone steps that rise out of grade and have carved into the face of the top riser an inscription.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The use of stone on the Survivors’ Wall and throughout the garden symbolizes stability and cohesion, representing the community that pulled together to support the families of those lost and those who survived.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The I-35W bridge collapse memorial is known as the Remembrance Garden.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Remembrance Garden was completed in July of 2011 and dedicated on August 1st, 2011 on the 4-year anniversary of the bridge collapse.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The 8 lane bridge, one of the busiest bridges that span the Mississippi River which snakes through the heart of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, suffered a catastrophic failure.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The steel and opaque glass columns remain lit a calming blue at all times, a blue that mirrors the light of the new 35W Bridge which is visible from the overlook platform.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Behind the columns at the back edge of the terrace is an 8’ high and 31’ long black polished granite water wall called the Survivors’ Wall.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The message of the memorial is one of quiet contemplation, tied directly and distinctly to the context within which the tragedy occurred.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Remembrance Garden is composed of four unifying and symbolic elements: A linear granite plaza, an overlook platform, the Survivor’s Wall, and thirteen iconic light columns.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The 35W Remembrance Garden site was located within close proximity to Gold Medal Park where so many community members gathered to draw on their communal strength and support in the aftermath of the collapse.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The personalized engravings upon each glass column not only reveals the name of the victim but a personal message written by their family, some in their native languages

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The repetition and cohesion of these simple vertical forms expresses a unity of shared experience.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

West River Parkway

Minneapolis, Minnesota

These 10’ steel I-beam and glass columns represent each of the victims whose lives were lost and are materially referential to the original bridge construction.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The spacing of the columns requires the visitor to intimately interact with the forms individually and to achieve proximity and pause before finding understanding.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

These stories are engraved at eye-level to the visitor and vary from factual narratives, to poems, to descriptions that chillingly illuminate the random happenstance of finding oneself in some place at a fateful moment.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The inspiration for the Remembrance Garden was derived from the designer’s interactions with the families and survivors after the tragedy with the intent to offer a place for remembrance, commemoration and healing.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

This sense of stability and cohesion in the face of the tragedy is a critical element in the Remembrance Garden.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Allianz ALBUM

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Wlakways

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Arbor

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Arbor and Fountain

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Entrance drop-off

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Entry area

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Inner Courtyard

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Ornamental grasses

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Conference garden

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Putting green

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Master-plan

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Fire pit and arbor

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Granite fountain

Golden Valley, Minnesota

Lawn and conference garden

Golden Valley, Minnesota

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General Mills Corporate Headquarters Campus ALBUM

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Plan

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Places for employee respite and interaction, as well as large gatherings were a strong desire of the client.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

OAA crafted a landscape that met the programmatic needs for gallery and office.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The manicured turf ground plane of the upper courtyard is edged with planting beds that have been created to save existing trees and as locations for site sculpture.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The lower bluestone terrace acts as an outdoor dining place for employees, as well as a gathering space for larger events.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

. In the process of construction, many pieces of sculpture needed to be relocated.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

This new picturesque landscape is a pleasure to view from the executive offices, the pedestrian link, or the dining terrace.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

In the center of the courtyard, a linear band of Siberian irises, broken by bands of Bluestone, marches towards the edge of the space.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The tree-lined water feeds into a large pond, where its trajectory is reinforced with underwater fountains creating a strong linear band of bubbles moving into the pond.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

In response, two courtyards on two different levels were designed to act as reflections of each other and address the programmatic needs of the site.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

OAA highlighted existing natural beauty and creating contemporary spaces that complimented the art that was on display.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The design created a crisp, clean and organic canvas for the relocated art that was a natural extension of the existing outdoor gallery.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The building is a statement of 1950s modernism juxtaposed against a pastoral landscape.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The lower courtyard is a mirror image of the upper courtyard.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Oslund.and.assoc.’s desire was to create the illusion that the new buildings were floating within the landscape, touching a motionless plane of water.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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The experience was created by interpreting the river landscape in a contemporary manner.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The aerial view of the site with interventions by OAA

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The focal point of the park is a sculptural observation mound – 32 feet in height – with a Cor-ten steel lined spiral walkway.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The unique aspect of the observation mound is that it is also the solution for the on-site environmental remediation that had to occur during construction.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sketch of the plan

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The site under construction

Minneapolis, Minnesota

In the short time since its grand opening on May 16, 2007, the park has become a well-loved and well-used public open space for Minneapolitans.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The design intention was to create an unprogrammed recreational space that would allow for myriad uses.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Contamination from the various past uses needed remediation.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architectural model

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Paths curving through the park abstract the dendritic pathways formed by water as it flows across a flat landscape toward the river channel.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Master-plan

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The aerial view of the site before interventions

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The entire oeuvre of site furnishings – benches, pedestrian lighting, utility screening, and trash receptacles - were custom-designed by oslund.and.assoc. for this project.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Thinking about this park as not only a contribution to the city’s green space legacy, but also to its focus on sustainability.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The park includes close to 300 mature trees, all hand-selected, and between 6”-10” in diameter.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Twenty sustainably-harvested Ipe wood benches line the edges of the park and the top of the observation mound.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Individual straight pathways of varying lengths lead to individual custom-designed benches, juxtaposing an abstraction of the city grid onto green open space.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The design strategy of the plan

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sketch of the section

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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SITES

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Hamline Blue Garden

O2 Design

Landscape Project

Peavey Plaza

O2 Design

Landscape Project

General Mills Corporate Headquarters Campus

O2 Design, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Landscape Project

Allianz

O2 Design

Landscape Project

Target Plaza at Target Field

O2 Design, Populous (orig. HOK Sport)

Landscape Project

35 W Remembrance Garden

O2 Design

Landscape Project

35W Bridge Reconstruction

O2 Design

Recreation

Gold Medal Park

O2 Design

Landscape Project

Medtronic Patent Garden

O2 Design

Landscape Project

Harley Davidson Museum

Biber Architects, O2 Design, Pentagram Studio

Museum

UM Duluth Swenson Laboratory Science Building

Ross Barney Architects Inc, O2 Design, Stanius Johnson Architects (SJA)

Education

UM Duluth Swenson Civil Engineering Building

Ross Barney Architects Inc, Stanius Johnson Architects (SJA) , O2 Design

Education

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PLAYLISTS CURATED by O2 Design

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35W Bridge Reconstruction ALBUM

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35 W Remembrance Garden ALBUM

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Allianz ALBUM

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General Mills Corporate Headquarters Campus ALBUM

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Gold Medal Park ALBUM