(Asbestos Bill– flickr/creative commons license) George F. Cole designed the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, constructed in 1929. It was the highest bridge in the world for 72 years, at 955ft high and 1,260 ft long. Lon P. Piper financed …
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Perez Architects and Fentress Bradburn Architects designed the Denver Airport, completed in 1995. It is the largest international airport in the United States. The white tensile fiberglass tent structures are reminicent of the Rocky Mountains. The pedestrian bridge that links …
(Ray Tsang– wikipedia/creative commons license) Daniel Libeskind designed the Denver Art Museum. it opened in 2006, as Denver sought to add cultural prestige in the height of the “Bilbao Effect” phenomenon. Libeskind drew inspiration from the geometric landscape of the …
(andy54321– flickr/creative commons license) The David Adjaye design for the MCA Denver Colorado opened in 2007. A 27,000 ft2 envelope of tinted glass has an interior of translucent and bright materials. A line of concept gallery boxes is slightly contorted …