How Denver is failing at Good Design

2016-04-10T16:32:00-04:00

you can spend a lot of money, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to come to an outcome that is going to be good over the long run. I think that, you know, it really comes to the design of the building, how the material transitions are treated, color is a huge issue that often doesn't get I think enough attention and can hugely influence the outcome in a building

Last month Ryan Warner talked with architect Jeff Sheppard (of the firm Roth Sheppard) and Matt Schildt (managing director of development for Trammell Crow Residential), regarding the city's current construction boom. Concerns range from "luxury apartments" whose facades are a "mishmash of architectural styles", to worries about becoming a "plywood city", to too much infill and kit development. One proposed solution is the implementation of city-wide design review committees.

Jeff Sheppard calls downtown Denver's new housing developments "meaningless, uninspiring"

2015-04-13T14:09:00-04:00

It's a big deal when Denver's top architect publishes an essay saying this city is failing at design downtown. That we are building one mundane apartment building after the next. That we are wasting the opportunity to become a national leader and ruining the urban landscape by putting profit above civic pride. Jeff Sheppard said all that [...] in a guest editorial in last Sunday's Denver Post. And we'd be wise to hear him and do what he's suggesting: Knock it off immediately.

Sheppard's opinion piece "Denver is a great city, so why the bad buildings?" in the Denver Post can be found here.

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How Denver is failing at Good Design

Jeff Sheppard calls downtown Denver's new housing developments "meaningless, uninspiring"