Museum in Denver by Daniel Libeskind

Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the extension of the art museum in Denver, Colorado will be open to the public for the first time and for free (the following days will cost 13 dollars). The author of the new wing, clad in titanium and costing 110 million dollars, is architect Daniel Libeskind, who won the commission in 2000 when an international competition was held to expand the main building from 1971 designed by Milanese architect Gio Ponti.
From the street, the extension called “Frederic C. Hamilton Building” is hardly visible. The entrance atrium paved with gray granite and with white-painted walls reaches a height of forty meters. A main staircase winds through the atrium leading to the upper floors. While the galleries for temporary exhibitions on the first and second floors are quite ordinary, the spaces in the upper floors emerge from the jagged geometry of the building. Info>