The Denver Art Museum extension completed in 2006 by Daniel Libeskind, at a cost of around $20m.
A design elevation I found online:
And 2 night shots I took while there:
The Museum of Contemporary Art by David Adjaye, which opened in October 2007.
A very cool black paneled building, but I found a corten-steel paneled building right behind it that I found much more interesting.
The Sugarcube building on Blake St. is a luxury apartment building, deisgned by KBMP Architects from Toronto. 37 Units, great location, fantastic looking building.
Photo from website:
Millenium Bridge by ArchitectureDenver and Ove Arup. A very cool cable-stayed pedestrian bridge over the train tracks.
The driving east into Denver from Vail is unbelievable, the mountain passes are breathtaking. The drive east out of Denver into Kansas, however, was one of the most boring things I've ever subjected myself to. I'll be returning to Denver very soon!!
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glad to hear you enjoyed your visit here! this city is still trying to find its architectural identity, but it looks like you were able to find most of the recent "gems".
with all these pieces there was significant controversy to get them built. The libeskind you saw was more like $75 million, and the associate architects were "asked" to work for free to get adjaye's work built.
there are some great multi family residential and single homes by local architects as well.
oh-I forgot to mention that the steel clad building behind the MCART is also an adjaye designed residence, paid for by the director of the museum.
the inside has varying tones of wood panelling on all the walls as you move up through the town home.
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