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The 16th Street Mall takes civil engineers for granite
Imagine that the 16th Street Mall is Denver's smile, and that the granite pavers are the individual teeth that cost over a million dollars a year to floss, fill and cap. RTD is tired of the expense and wants to rip them up and replace them with concrete. The paver-pattern was designed by architect I.M. Pei to resemble the skin of a Western Rattlesnake, and the folks at Historic De
Yesterday afternoon, I posted a note from Marcus Pachner, informing members of the CBHD -- the stakeholders' group working with Shea Properties on its redevelopment of the former University of Colorado Health Sciences campus -- that Denver City Council's public hearing to consider landmark status for two buildings on the site has been postponed from Monday, January 5 to an as-yet undetermined date.
This postponement came as news to the Landmark Preservation Commission, whose recommend
Independence Institute chief John Caldara lost the battle of the sexes shoot-off at the organization's annual ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- but not in that order) event at the Kiowa Shooting Club on Saturday, but he's still a master at shooting from the lip. "I always aim for the left wing," he said, after nicking one clay pigeon.http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/
This year's featured ATF speaker was Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, whose fifteen minutes o
Architect Ed White changed the way the world looks at Denver -- not just through his architectural designs, but through his friendship with Jack Kerouac. That friendship is documented in the form of Tim Gray, a White-like character in On The Road, as well as in the structure of the book itself. Back when he was an architecture student at Columbia University in the '40s, White told Kerouac he should create word sketches. "I was making sketches, and it occurred to me, because he was always obser
