With striking city and mountain views, Museum Residences, gallery-inspired condominiums by Daniel Libeskind are a place where art, architecture, and theatre connect with the pulse of the city. Adjacent to Frederic C. Hamilton Building, it creates inspiring contribution to the city. “For me, Museum Residences is a unique opportunity. I consider the challenge of designing for downtown Denver, one of the most vibrant cities in this country, to be one of the highest honors bestowed upon any architect,” Daniel Libeskind says.

The soft qualities of the translucent glass skin Rheinzink™ technology combined with the metal clad geometric forms provide an elegant partner to the titanium clad Denver Art Museum addition next door. The dynamic design intended to connect intellectual, emotional and sensual, providing generous space art collection, original angles for sculpture, a sophisticated zeitgeist with clean, simple lines, contemporary kitchens, and interiors and terraces.

Residents here will have the amenities to the entertainment of downtown, yet enjoy a whole new urban landmarks arriving to the Denver Art Museum as part of its spectacular extension. “I hope there will be more projects like this, what the public has done is brought culture and everyday life together in one space. It contributes to the economic growth and gives a new value to a city,” Mr. Libeskind said in a telephone interview.

Built on the corner of 12th Ave. and Acoma St. in Denver, the Museum Residences wrap around two sides of a 980-car public parking garage. With total of seven floors, six floors above are residential and for the 16,000 square feet of space on the ground floor open for retail, enhancing vibrant life activity at the street level Acoma Plaza of the Arts. The largest tenant so far is the Mizel Museum, which exhibits multicultural and educational programming about tolerance, diversity and human rights.

Daniel Libeskind associates with Davis Partnership Architects for this project. “The Museum Residences will surround the parking structure to create a totally cohesive urban environment that will connect downtown Denver with the burgeoning Golden Triangle area south of the museum…,” Brit K. Probst, Principal, Davis Partnership says.

With its sloped geometry and maximum usage of metal clad and coated glass, Museum Residences resonates with Daniel Libeskind’s vision and collaborates with the Frederic C. Hamilton Building across it. Fifty-five variable plans range in size from 756 square feet to a luxury penthouses as large as 4,500 square feet. The structural system is post-tensioned concrete up to the sixth level and structural steel above that. Loads from sloping concrete columns are transferred through the concrete floor into the walls of the precast garage.

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