LOT SIZE: 5 ACRE PARCEL
BUILDING SIZE: 103,750sf; 44 units, 60,000 sf of office space
COMPLETED:  2008

Mixed-use building, opened in August 2008. Dubbed a “Landscraper” because the 550-foot long structure stood on end would be a 55-story skyscraper. Will Bruder, David Baker, Harry Teague and Alan Eban Brown collaborated on the design of this project, which includes 44 residential units, 60,000 sf of office space, TAXI Fitness (gym, steam room & showers), a communal conference room and Pilates Aligned at TAXI.

Taxi 2, a mixed-use project in downtown,
industrial Denver, was the result of a
unique collaboration between Harry
Teague Architects, Will Bruder &
Partners, David Baker & Partners, and
Allen Brown & Partners.

Bold, straightforward massing and
surprising 550ft length inform a dramatic
first impression. TAXI 2 immediately
displays an efficient A&E systems logic.
The architectural material palette is an
unadorned layering of raw materials,
textures, colors and forms. The long
4-story building horizontally layers two
levels of mixed business tenants below
44 residences. Light-filled interior
common areas are whimsical, artful
and socializing places, a community enhancing
force.

TAXI is a working and living community,
an invigorating new addition to
the cityscape. An orderly systems
building with an eclectic and pluralistic
public realm, TAXI 2 embraces the
fragmentary character of modern urban
life. It is durable, creative, inclusive,
fluid, efficient, contrasting, changeable,
multi-use, transparent, hybrid and
sustainable. In architecture, art and
landscape, it embraces the creative
culture of the day.