Denver Art Museum
Sweeps the Awards

Feature
News, Awards

Published
January 2023

Tags
Denver Art Museum, Museums, Awards

Over the past few months, the Denver Art Museum, Martin Building Expansion and Revitalization project has been widely recognized with a number of awards, from the local, Denver Mayor’s Design Award, to Interior Design Magazine’s 2022 Best of Year Winner for Museums, to the most recently received, Boston Society for Architecture, Honor Award for Design Excellence.

Events

Clockwise from left: Principals, Jeffry Burchard and Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer at the BSA Awards Gala; Stephanie and partner architecture firm, Fentress Architects' team, accepting the Interior Design Magazine award for 2022 Best of Year Winner for Museums; Stephanie and Associate, Emily Ashby accept the AIA New England, Merit Award

Jury Comments

“The DAM project consists of multiple interventions throughout the existing building. The showstopper, the Sie Welcome Center addition, successfully finds its own voice and presence among the iconic buildings by Gio Ponti and Libeskind... Overall, the project is a dramatic transformation that results in beautiful and inviting spaces for the community for generations to come.”

– Boston Society for Architecture, Awards Jury

“Primary gestures of the Sie visitors center and new plaza successfully resolve a complex urban condition. The Ponti building rehabilitation and roof terrace successfully enable the Museum to engage a large spectrum of the community... The elegantly detailed pavilion manages a lightness and distinct character.”

– AIA Colorado, Awards Jury

BSA Honor Award

AIA Colorado Honor Award

Interior Design

Mayor Design Award

ASLA Colorado

Downtown Denver Partnership

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  • The Denver Art Museum’s campus, comprised of several notable works of architecture including the 1971 Gio Ponti museum tower, commissioned Machado Silvetti for the design of the new Sie Welcome Center which serves as a beacon and an anchor for Denver’s emerging cultural center. Read more about the completed project here.

  • We pursued the deliberate, particular goal of finding and retrieving inspiration from some of Gio Ponti’s ideas that resulted in the creation of the most important design component of the whole project: the defining glass beacon that gives new formal identity to the institution, and new iconic clarity to one of the most vibrant districts of the city of Denver. Read more about the design process of the Denver Art Museum here.

  • Made with curved glass panels, the Welcome Center’s façade creates an elegant surface ripple as its appearance responds to the curvature of the elliptical plan, the environment and the viewer’s own movement around the building. Learn more about the fabrication of the glass used at the Denver Art Museum here.

  • Project updates, upcoming events, construction features, & site visits — Continue exploring news articles and stories here.