Optiv Opts for Comfort in 1144 Fifteenth Street
The comforts of home don’t always translate to the office, although Denver-based cybersecurity company Optiv is enticing its locally based remote workers back to the office with a brand-new, state-of-the-art, 75,000-square-foot headquarters. The new location includes many of the comforts of home.
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November 4, 2018Snowmass Base Village – Vision Becomes Reality
The idea for a pedestrian-oriented village at the base of Snowmass Ski Area has been percolating since the resort opened in 1967. The concept was first articulated by iconic Aspen architect and developer Fritz Benedict who helped draw up the initial plans, and it has been talked about ever since.
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October 29, 2018Precedent Overload: Designing in the Era of Pinterest
Several years ago I attended a lecture at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design by Nader Tehrani, principal of the esteemed architecture firm NADAA and current dean of the The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.
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October 21, 2018A Case for Putting in the Work to Deliver Value
There is a large and critical difference between value thinking and bottom-line thinking. To ensure a project thrives, it’s essential to understand this difference.
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October 15, 2018Reconnecting People with Nature: Green Walls
Humans have a natural disposition to seek and to connect with nature and other forms of life. But people living in urban areas are becoming more disconnected from nature. Plant walls are an easy and stunning way to reconnect them to nature. Plant walls can improve people’s health and mood.
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October 8, 2018Office from the Ashes: Is Agile the New Open?
In case you missed it, the new “final” word on the much-maligned open-plan office was delivered in early July, the results of a study by Harvard researchers. Predictably, the findings revealed gaping holes in communication effectiveness and productivity of companies utilizing open-plan office spaces.
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September 30, 20181670 Broadway: Reinvigorating a Downtown Asset
The distinctive 36-story 1670 Broadway building has framed the terminus of 17th Street for over 30 years. At the completion of original construction, the Amoco building, Columbia Plaza as it was then known, provided a high standard for office properties in Denver.
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September 23, 2018GH Phipps Construction: 65 years in the making
I’m sitting in a conference room at the south Denver offices of GH Phipps Construction and I notice mounted on a wall down the hallway: Our Mission Inspire, Lead, Deliver with Passion, Pride & Integrity.
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September 16, 2018The Source Hotel: Taking concrete to the next level in RiNo
In the booming RiNo Art District northeast of downtown Denver, The Source Hotel’s Nordic-meets-industrial design is a sleek, stark and ultimately apt counterpoint to the historic foundry-turned-food hall of the same name next door.
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September 9, 201850 Fifty Sets Sail in the Denver Tech Center
The combination of exceptional design and premium quality always emanates a certain sense of luster that’s hard to deny and easy to appreciate. In 2018, 50 Fifty, a new 185,000-square-foot office building, joined the Denver Tech Center skyline hoping to establish itself as a premier property among the area’s abundant competition.
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August 31, 2018