Temenos / Roth Sheppard Architects
Roth Sheppard Architects is an architecture firm in Colorado with over two decades of experience. Principals Jeff Sheppard, AIA and Herb Roth, FAIA, and a growing young staff recently moved into their new office space, titled Temenos. Roth Sheppard Architects designed their workspace to marry their office’s established modern aesthetics with the fresh ideas of young clients and employees.
Architect: Roth Sheppard Architects
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Consultants: Performance Engineering, McDonald Consulting + Design, Inc., R2H, Williams Construction
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Frank Ooms
First Presbyterian Church Colorado Springs / Trahan Architects
Trahan Architects, among several elite design firms to contend, was selected to design “one of the most significant ecclesiastical commissions in the nation,” also known as the First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs. The proposed 1,750 seat sanctuary, along with a master plan comprises this project, which sits in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. The structure is relatively independent of overt signs of a church; its design aspires to revive the church’s identity through an architecture which articulates convergence.
More on the First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs after the break.
Target Tower / Belzberg Architects
Architect: Belzberg Architects
Location: Belmar Center, Lot 1 Lakewood, Colorado, 80226, USA
Renderings: Courtesy of Belzberg Architects
Education 1 Facility / NAC Architecture
Architect: NAC Architecture
Location: Aurora, Colorado, Unites States
Consultants: Kahler Slater Architects, Inc., Pamela Bartczak Design, University of Colorado Denver, Martin & Martin, S.A. Miro, M-E Engineers, Shen Milsom Wilke, InSite Design
Project Year: 2008
Photography: Frank Ooms
The new Education 1 Facility by NAC Architecture sets the tone for the new University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The building houses education facilities for multiple medical schools within the university. The design by NAC Architecture accomplishes a welcoming building that extends itself out into the campus and the students it serves.
Golden High School / NAC Architecture
Architect: NAC Architecture
Location: Golden, Colorado, United States
Consultants: Martin Martin Consulting Engineers, V3 Consultants, The RMH Group, M-E Engineers, David L. Adams Associates, Inc., Wenk Associates, Ricca Newmark Design
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Frank Ooms
Golden High School has been in existence in name since 1873. The current building is designed by architecture firm NAC Architecture and is the fourth incarnation in Golden, Colorado. Completed in 2008, the new building by NAC Architecture takes advantage of the outdoors to create a positive environment for the students inside and out.
Center for Community at the University of Colorado at Boulder / Centerbrook Architects with Davis Partnership Architects
The Center for Community at the University of Colorado at Boulder established a commanding architectural and unifying presence when it opened last fall, immediately becoming the go-to-place to break bread, have meetings, and make new friends on a sprawling campus with 30,000 residents. The 900-seat, street-market styled dining complex serves as the heartbeat of the new “C4C,” as the 320,000-square-foot building is known in collegiate shorthand.
Architect: Centerbrook Architects with Davis Partnership Architects
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Project Area: 320,000 sqf
Photographs: Paul Brokering, Casey Cass
The Eco Tent / The Neenan Company
The Neenan Company, an integrated architecture and construction firm based in Fort Collins, Colorado, partnered with the EMU Festival, an eco-conscious music festival held in Snowmass, Colorado, to re-invent the traditional music festival tent.
Neenan employees were invited to participate in a contest to create the world’s first sustainable festival tent. The goal of the contest was to create a portable structure that could be installed on a city street as easily as it could at the top of a mountain. Materials for the tent were required to be biodegradable, recyclable, or have a sustainable end-of-life plan, so none of the pieces would end up in a landfill. In addition, the design needed to be easy-to-assemble, so that the tent could be put together by a few people with minimal or no tools.
Designer: Ben Shepard, 3D Animator, The Neenan Company
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Collaborators: Randell Johnson, AIA, Vice President Business Development, The Neenan Company; Timothy Wooster, Founder, EMU Festival
Project Year: 2011
Renderings: The Neenan Company
Photographs: Yann Ropars and The Neenan Company
The Research Support Facility / RNL Design
Architects: RNL Design
Location: Golden, Colorado, USA
Interior design: RNL Design
Mechanical engineer: Stantec Consulting
Structural engineer: KL&A Engineering, Golden Office
Electrical engineer: Stantec Consulting
Civil engineer: Martin / Martin, Inc.
Project area: 222,000 sqf
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Frank Ooms
V Tower / Meridian 105 Architecture
V Tower is a residential high rise positioned atop of a base of retail, restaurant, cafe, and parking designed by Meridian 105 Architecture. The tower provides an urban park for the neighborhood in Denver, Colorado while establishing a new ground plane for street-life to develop at the site.
Read on for more on this project after the break.
Clyfford Still Museum / Allied Works Architecture
Architects: Allied Works Architecture
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Project area: 28,500 sqm
Project year: 2011
Renders and drawings: Allied Works Architecture
Denver Central Platte Campus / RNL Design
Architects: RNL Design
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Project area: 105,000 sqf
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Ed LaCasse
Weigel Residence / substance
This residence is a vacation home for a couple and their four young children. Located on a quarter-acre site in a residential development in Copper Mountain, Colorado, the home is comprised of a single-story, post-and-beam pavilion containing the primary living and entertainment spaces, and a four-story, conventionally framed tower containing the service spaces and bedrooms. These elemental volumes are arranged to create two distinct landscape experiences: a sequestered, private environment of indoor and outdoor living spaces sheltered by lodge pole pines and nestled into the wooded site, and an expansive, open experience of Rocky Mountain vistas afforded by the belvedere quality of the tower. This arrangement allows the homeowners to “be in the woods” and “see the mountains” – the two site qualities which initially drew them to this location.
Architect: substance
Location: Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA
Project Area: 4,000 sqf
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Farshid Assassi/Assassi Productions
1800 Larimer / RNL Design
Architects: RNL Design
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Project area: 24,500 sqf
Photographs: Frank Ooms
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes / Anderson Mason Dale Architects
The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes is an outpatient clinic and research facility for children, adults and families with type I diabetes. The center is located in the very heart of the new university health sciences campus, facing the campus’ central arrival green. An historic Army hospital is the organizing structure and primary precedent for all new projects on this new campus.
Architect: Anderson Mason Dale Architects
Location: University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, 1775 N. Ursula Street, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Contractor: JE Dunn Construction Company
Clinical Planning: Buscaj Andrews Architecture and Design
Landscape Architect: Wenk Associates, Inc.
Civil Engineer: S.A. Miro, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Martin/Martin, Inc.
Mechanical/Electrical Engineer: BCER Engineering, Inc.
Cost Estimating: Pre-Construction Services, Inc.
Laboratory Consultant: Research Facilities Design, Inc.
Furniture: Gallun Snow Associates, Inc.
Project Area: 110,000 sqf
Project Year: 2005
Photography: Frank Ooms Photography, Inc.
RedLine / Semple Brown Design
RedLine’s program capitalizes on the tangible benefits of education and training and the emotional benefits of connectivity, respect, and satisfaction for artists. The design offers unique opportunities for artists and visitors to enter a realm where inspiration is not held in check. For artists, the most fundamental spaces within RedLine are ten generously sized studios for mid career artists. For these studios, RedLine solicits interest from artists who want to make the leap from their current status to a more established standing. One goal is to improve their art, but RedLine also seeks to provide resources so that these artists might better understand other impediments that may be holding them back. This is done in part by the inclusion of three larger studios for established artists, one of whom is the client for the project. The client and other established artists will share their experiences with the mid career artists through an active mentoring program.
Architect: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Structural Engineer: McGlamery Structural Group
General Contractor: Spectrum General Contractor
Project Area: 20,000 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Ron Pollard
Littleton Church of Christ / Semple Brown Design
Semple Brown Design designed an addition to the Littleton Church of Christ that took advantage of the site’s features including the commanding views of the Front Range. This remedied the three main drawbacks of the original building. The drawbacks included:
- Lack of a welcoming first impression. The existing structure’s main entrance was not visible from the main thoroughfare, Colorado Boulevard. From the street, the building was completely surrounded by parking lots, creating unnecessary disconnection and isolation of the large and expansive lawn areas around the property.
- The building’s complete disregard of the views from the site. The design was introverted, sharply conflicting with the congregation’s desire to reach out to the community.
- A building layout that presented a confusing and disconnected circulation path to members and visitors alike.
See how Semple Brown Design tackled these drawbacks after the break.
Architect: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
Location: 6495 South Colorado Boulevard, Centennial, Colorado, USA
Project Team: Russell L. Brown, Jr. (Principal in Charge of Design), Chris Wineman (Principal), Kevin Stephenson (Project Architect), Brian Holland (Job Captain/Design)
Structural Engineer: The McGlamery Structural Group
Electrical Engineer: M-E Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: MTech Mechanical Technologies
General Contractor: Palace Construction
Project Area: 26,165 sqf
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Ron Pollard
Lincoln Mixed Use / Meridian 105 Architecture
Chad Mitchell, president of Denver based Meridian 105 Architecture, has shared with us his proposal for a planned mixed use complex in downtown Denver Colorado. After the break, be sure to look over the proposed passive wall systems used throughout the design proposal in addition to the rest of the renderings and description from M1A.
Box House / Studio H:T
The Box House designed by architects Studio H:T and located in Boulder, Colorado provides the homeowners with compelling views. Taking into consideration a steep slope and wildfire prone area the architects capitalized on these site challenges creating a home that is unique in form, space and materiality.
Architect: Studio H:T
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Photographs: Ellen Jasksol
Stapleton Pool House Number 3 / Semple Brown Design
With an identical program to the previous two pool houses, by Semple Brown Design for the Stapleton Development, Pool House Number 3 departs from the design concept with the placement of individual pavilions set in the landscape. Weaving through and around the pavilions, the landscape creates an intimate and peaceful experience for the bathers. The surrounding landscape and the pointedly placed one-hundred and fifty foot long planter, which defines the northern courtyard, soften the white concrete pavilions and provide privacy to the street façade. The simple pavilions nestle themselves into the neighborhood-scape.
Architect: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Project Team: Sarah Semple Brown (Principal in Charge of Design), Chris Davis (Architect), Renee del Gaudio (Design/Job Captain)
Landscape Consultant: Paradigm Affiliates
Civil Engineering: Harris Kocher Smith
Pool Contractor: Monarch Pools
Public Art/Graphic Walls: UrbanRock Design
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Consultant: Reese Engineering
General Contractor: Mortenson Construction
Structural Engineer: McGlamery Structural Group
Project Area: 2,760 sqf
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Miller Hall Photography
Lowenstein Cultural Center / Semple Brown Design
The prominent urban site located along East Colfax Avenue was the first anchor development for the City of Denver’s Colfax Redevelopment Plan. This project strives help to invigorate the neighborhood and work as a catalyst for the revitalization of East Colfax Avenue.
Architect: Semple Brown Design, P.C
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Project Team: Russel L. Brown Jr. (Principal-in-Charge), Kevin Stephenson (Architect/Designer), Leila Schwyhart (Designer/Job Captain), Chris Wineman (Theatre Design Expert)
Structural Engineer: McGlammery Structural Group
Electrical/Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer: Belfay Engineering
Civil Engineer: JVA Incorporated
General Contractor: Swinerton Builders
Signage Consultant: ArtHouse
Project Area: 92,000 sqf
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Ron Pollard
Stapleton Pool House #2 / Semple Brown Design
Parks and open space define many of Denver’s great neighborhoods. The Stapleton Development (Denver’s old airport) is devoting nearly 30% of its 4,700 acres to parks and open-space. Semple Brown Design’s project team was an original member of the master planning for Stapleton’s open spaces and parks. This project has evolved into designing a variety of pavilions, buildings, trellises, and shade structures. These projects include what will eventually be five (5) public pool houses. They will be key features in public parks currently being developed throughout the new Stapleton Neighborhood. This project is the second of the 5 pool houses.
Architect: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Consultant: Reese Engineering
General Contractor: Mortenson Construction
Structural Engineer: The McGlamery Structural Group
Project Area: 2,760 sqf
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Ron Pollard
