PRESIDENT CLUB GARDEN

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Presidents Club Garden is designed to recognize individuals who have made significant monetary donations to the University of Minnesota.  Currently, donors are recognized by a display of names engraved on small brass plaques on a wall inside the Alumni Center Building.  The wall has become too small to include more recognition plaques, so the client asked the landscape architect to design a recognition wall outdoors on the adjacent Alumni Center Plaza.

Several locations on the plaza were explored and conceptual designs were developed to invite discussion and determine preferences among various political entities.  All ideas were very well-received by the client.  Eventually a single location was chosen and a preferred design option was further developed.