Donors Interested in Saving Mitchell Park | But not necessarily saving the domes. Local supervisor, Parks and philanthropic community moving toward a new Mitchell Park project.

ieightpi, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It’s not the buildings that are important but what’s inside them.

I don’t particularly care about the domes, but I care about the plants. I have no idea how it would be done, but if they can save the specimens and build around them, I’d be fine with that.

There are some very old specimens in there and it would take decades to get that beauty we have today. So hopefully they figure out a way to save the plants while building a new greenhouse. If that’s the direction they take it.

Salad_Fries, 10 months ago

I know its a super unpopular opinion, but i wouldnt mind seeing the domes torn down/replaced with a new botanical garden.

I find the domes to be rather underwhelming compared to other botanical gardens & find the facility to be rather inefficiently laid out.

I think losing the domes with no botanical garden replacement would be a big loss for the city, but dont really see the domes themselves as particularly worth saving.

joe, 10 months ago

@Salad_Fries @hukaulaba The style of the domes is very mid-century and very experimental (usually when you do a domed structure, you don't have it primarily made out of concrete). I'm sure that you can build something better using modern techniques, but it is less of a case of utility and more of a case of uniqueness. There are a lot of structures in #Milwaukee's past that I wish were still around, but somebody at some point made the determination that it was more functional to demolish it.