Situated in Denver, Colorado, this commissioned project called for an iconic landmark, with the goal to culturally reinvigorate a relatively vacant region. The program called for two symmetrical office towers bridged in the middle and podium level. Amenities, restaurants, galleries, and studios would be at the ground level and other peripheral programs would extend to the corner park area and train station. The project was largely intended to be a marketing piece, giving the locals a vision of what could be. Images produced at Shimahara Visual.
The playful yet dynamic presence of the architecture was a result of a synthesis of the natural and manmade elements of the site. Positioned between a busy highway, a canal, train tracks and it's station, it seemed obvious that the architecture had to resonate a directional quality, from which a formal arrangement would evolve from, the internal spatial arrangement, would offer a sense of attraction and respite from the surrounding forces. Like brush strokes in space, the gestural spatial containers are a spatially dynamic capture of the forces present of the region, a form of bracketing. And all though it feels disjointed in it's omnidirectional flow, it is in fact connected in ways less evident when passing through. The project is a cluster hub, a reductive formal arrangement, derived from the connectivity of overlapping forces and flows in the area.