A View To The Zoo

By Timothy A. Schuler, Landscape Architecture Magazine

Published April 4, 2024

Featuring Ross Altheimer, PLA, ASLA, FAAR and Egle Vanagaite, ASLA

Transforming a defunct monorail into an elevated trail was an exercise in creative friction.

For some designers, a zoo may not have the same appeal or design potential as, say, a postindustrial site. But for the Minneapolis-based designers at TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture + Urbanism, a project to repurpose a former monorail at the Minnesota Zoo as a 1.25-mile-long elevated walking path was as rich as any historic site…

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