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Today marks the long-awaited debut of Studio Gang’s Populus hotel project in Denver. The 265-room design is being promoted as the first ‘carbon-positive’ hotel development in the United States and features a combination of highly sustainable building materials and offsetting strategies that... View full entry
MAD Architects has completed One River North in Denver; a 16-story scheme defined by a “cracked-open canyon” running across its glazed facade. A mixed-use development in the city’s River North Art District, the scheme contains rental apartments and retail spaces. Image credit: Iwan Baan... View full entry
Populus goes one step further in its boast of being 'carbon positive', not just offsetting the hotel’s carbon footprint but actually taking out far more carbon than it puts in – a promise few businesses would dare to make, for both financial and publicity reasons.
As a term, however, 'carbon positive' can be linguistically confusing [...] and with no clear definition of what 'carbon positive' means, there are no metrics by which to determine its validity.
— The Guardian
The project, first announced in February 2021, has since garnered skepticism amidst its developer Urban Villages' claims of being a first-of-its-kind carbon-positive American design in the typology. The true sustainability of the firm’s 2009 Aqua Tower in Chicago has been scrutinized in the past... View full entry
Things appear to be moving forward for Denver’s proposed KSE-Ball Arena Redevelopment following the approval of a rezoning application from Shears Adkins Rockmore Architects (SAR+). The plan connects 75 acres around the 25-year-old sports venue to the future River Mile Development and other... View full entry
National architecture and engineering firm HED has announced a merger with Denver-based practice Larson Incitti Architects (LIA). The move combines LIA’s staff with HED’s Denver office, which will greatly expand the local team. The merger also aims to leverage existing community relationships... View full entry
Construction is progressing at Denver’s One River North, designed by MAD Architects. The sixteen-story tower broke ground in late 2021 and represents MAD’s first residential rental building in the United States, expected to contain 187 units. View this post on Instagram A post shared by... View full entry
Studio Gang has been selected to lead the Phase 1 Implementation of Denver’s Civic Center Next 100 revitalization plan targeted at its Greek Theater and Central Promenade along 14th Avenue. The firm received a $2.8 million design contract for the project and was chosen based on an approach that... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to Santa Barbara-based ANACAPA, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Jackson, Wyoming to explore the work of Dynia Architects. Founded in 1994, and with offices in Jackson, WY and Denver, CO, the firm describes its mission as to “elevate all aspects... View full entry
Our Get Lectured series continues with a look at what’s happening on campus at the University of Colorado at Denver's College of Architecture and Planning this fall semester. Events kick off on Thursday, September 14 with a lecture from AYL Founder and Director Alex Yueyan Li. The Cooper... View full entry
For much of its recent history in mitigating climate change, Denver has concentrated on buildings’ operational energy — the energy needed to run basics like heating, air conditioning, lighting and hot water. That will shift in May, when Denver’s newly adopted green code takes effect, said Christy Collins, green communities specialist with the local government. — Smart Cities Dive
Denver’s new green code will make it so a building’s embodied carbon is considered. It will provide minimum requirements for the siting, design, construction, and plans for the operation of projects. Commercial projects in Denver are now required by law to choose around 10% of the green code... View full entry
Looking to work in an area filled with vivid landscapes, rivers, and eye-catching architecture like the Aspen Art Museum? Continuing with our architecture job highlights, below are seven architecture firms that are currently hiring architects and designers to join them in their Colorado-based... View full entry
The City of Denver has hired its first chief urban designer. Following a nearly year-long search, Eugenia Di Girolamo was selected as the city’s first employee to focus exclusively on urban design. Di Girolamo most recently worked as the deputy director for urban design at the New York... View full entry
Construction has begun on the Populus Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Designed by Studio Gang, the 13-story, 265-room hotel is described by the team as “the first carbon-positive hotel in the United States,” and the first Studio Gang project to be built in Colorado. According to the architects, the... View full entry
Let’s start with a little exercise. I would like you to input “Meow Wolf Denver” on Google Maps (here, I did it for you) and look at where the red pin falls on the map. Do you see it yet, the small, somewhat tear-shaped building tucked inside an interwoven web of highways? That, my friends, is Denver’s newest arts destination—and it sits on a tiny, triangular plot of land at the intersection of three highways. — Fast Company
Meow Wolf, the Sante Fe-based arts and entertainment company that specializes in hosting large-scale immersive experiences, has set up shop in Denver, with a new, uniquely-positioned space that opened to the public in September 2021. The building, spanning 5 stories and 95,000 square feet... View full entry
Producing a thick, black smoke plume that was seen throughout downtown Denver on Thursday afternoon, a fire burned in a portion of the club level on the east side of Empower Field at Mile High, which is home to the NFL's Broncos.
A Denver Fire Department spokesman said the fire covered "over 1,000 square feet'' and began on a suite level -- the fourth level -- of the stadium and then spread into seats in the third level.
— ESPN
The fire began in a part of the Fentress-designed stadium that is currently under construction. No injuries were reported. Officials said that the composition of the plastic seats in part helped fuel the blaze, producing a porous cloud of black smoke that could be seen widely across the city... View full entry
