Expansion
Daniel Libeskind Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado
The building will form a "connected gateway" between downtown Denver and the burgeoning Golden Triangle area south of the museum.
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In less than five years, the Denver Art Museum will nearly double in size and boast one of the country's most unique structures. The new 146,000 square foot building will consist of geometric shards, flaring out like flower petals, built of glass, titanium and Colorado granite. A sharply angled cantilevered section will jut across the street toward the existing museum.
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A Sky Bridge will link the new building to the old with a glass walkway over West 13th Avenue. The bridge will spill into a glass pavilion atop the Morgan Wing, which houses the museum's restaurant, and enter the existing gray glass tile Gio Ponti museum through a wall at second-story level.
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The addition will include permanent gallery space, special exhibition venues, a theater, a restaurant and a rooftop sculpture garden with spectacular mountain views. The heart of the new building will be a soaring lobby space with a glass ceiling.
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When completed, the entire museum complex will total more than 350,000 square feet. A five-story, 1,000 car parking structure will sit at an angle on the southern half of the
existing parking lot at Broadway and West 13th Avenue.
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The new building is scheduled for construction start in 2003 and completion in 2005. It will be one of Libeskind's first completed projects in the United States. Libeskind will collaborate with Denver based Davis Partnership.
Daniel Libeskind Architect Daniel Libeskind, whose offices are headquartered in Berlin, designed The Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, Germany. He is currently designing the Spiral Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Imperial War Museum-North, Manchester; the Bremen Philharmonic Hall, Bremen, Germany; The Jewish Museum in San Francisco, USA; the JVC University Colleges of Public Administration, Education and Art & Architecture, Guadalajara, Mexico; Maurice Wohl Convention Centre, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv; and Atelier Weil, a private atelier/gallery in Mallorca, Spain.
Related Web links: Daniel Libeskind Davis Partnership Denver Art Museum September 29, 2002
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