Denver Art Museum and Museum Residences: general view toward the north
Title : Denver Art Museum and Museum Residences
Other title : Denver Art Museum
Creator : Studio Daniel Libeskind; Davis Partnership Architects
Creator role : Architect
Date : 2003-2006
Current location : Denver, Colorado, United States
Description of work : "Libeskind's block-long complex completes a pedestrian corridor paved in white and red granite that begins at Denver's Beaux Arts Civic Center. Passing between the museum's original building, a 1971 edifice by Italian master Gio Ponti, and Michael Graves's Post-Modern Denver Public Library, the thoroughfare terminates with Libeskind's plaza as a gateway to the gentrifying Golden Triangle neighborhood. On the plaza's eastern edge, the Museum Residences form an L-shaped mid-rise that clings to two sides of a new five-level parking garage. Across the plaza is the new museum addition, the Frederic C. Hamilton Building--a 146,000 square foot eruption of jagged peaks and soaring prows that beg the inevitable comparison to the Rockies beyond." (Source: Chen, Aric. "A civic act: Daniel Libeskind parlayed his high-profile addition to the Denver Art Museum into a commission for a neighboring condominiums-and created a successful urban space in the process." Metropolis v.26, n.7 (Mar 2007): 120-128, 143)
Description of view : General view of the south facades of the Museum's Residences to the right and the Frederic C. Hamilton building to the left. The Lanny and Sharon Martin Plaza by Libeskind is in-between them. The sculpture "Scottish Angus Cow and Calf" by Dan Ostermiller is located just south of the Hamilton Building to the left in the Hindery Family Park, a gift in 2006 from Leo Hindery. The Denver Public Library is also in distant view to the center right at the end of the plaza.
Work type : Architecture and Landscape
Style of work : Contemporary: Deconstructivist
Culture : American
Materials/Techniques : Glass
Metal
Stone
Source : Pisciotta, Henry
Date photographed : April 2008
Resource type : Image
File format : JPEG
Image size : 2304H X 3072W pixels
Permitted uses : This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection : Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename : WB2009-0283 DAMandMusRes.JPG
Record ID : WB2009-0283
Sub collection : museums
squares (open spaces)
housing
Copyright holder : Copyright Henry Pisciotta