As part of an urban spatial composition anchored by the new Denver Art Museum expansion, the Museum Residences are wrapped in transparent and opaque glass and accented with dramatic diagonal RHEINZINK panels. Designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, New York, and Davis Partnership Architects, Denver, the $32 million, 126,000- square-foot (11,705-m2) project includes 55 luxury condominiums that offer “gallery-inspired living.”
More than 30,000 square feet (2,787 m2) of RHEINZINK 0.03-inch
(0.7-mm), 24-gauge Preweathered Blue Gray Flat Lock Tile from RHEINZINK America Inc., Cambridge, Mass., was used to accent and highlight the seven-story structure. The structure was strategically sited to reduce visual impact of the adjoining parking garage while echoing the adjacent titanium-clad Denver Art Museum.
The building massing is comprised of two rectilinear five-story glass volumes topped with sculpted RHEINZINK-clad two-story penthouses that are connected by a diagonal sloping form at the corner of the garage that interlocks with the glass volumes.
According to Davis Partnership project architect Joe Lear: “There was a hierarchy to the pieces in the overall project. The art museum was obviously first and foremost, and you step back from there. For the Residences, there was a conscious decision to use RHEINZINK because it was a complement to the titanium used extensively on the museum. The RHEINZINK provided the right texture and color to complement and yet still be individual.”
Installation of the panels and curtainwall was done by A-1 Glass, Englewood, Colo. The general contractor on the project was Milender White Construction Co., Golden, Colo.
