Denver Art Museum Hamilton Wing

Daniel Libeskind took inspiration for his new Frederic C. Hamilton wing at the Denver Art Museum from jet's-eye views of the Rockies. The wing's oblique planar surfaces do resemble the rock Flatiron slabs of the Front Range, but he gives a building far more complex than simple geologic context implies. The form is a mountain upended, with apical auditorium underground and the prismatic shards of its roots shredding the big western sky. The atrium turns the snowfield inside out...an icecave.

[@connski]

Kids really respond to architecturally stimulating space. I see them grow spatially aware in my house. I was lucky to attend the Denver Art Museum press opening and shoot video unfettered.

[@pamlico140]

I went to the Hammilton Building for one reason-I love PostModernist Architecture.Being a student at the New Fort Collins High School, a post modern building, I get to appreciate it everyday at school. And, going into the Denver Art museum, I thought I would be used to the sharp wall angling which they have in my school's computer labs.But man, when you go into that building, the vertigo can get to you!The walls are so insanly obtuse that your eyes don't expect it and you get dizziness spells.

[@joshtamargoderothschild2420]

milwaukee art museumm rules!!!!!!!!!! libeskind its an amazing arch. but calatrava and saha hadin are out of this planet... =)

[@Ricangelo]

Erm...he denied doing deconstruction. It was coined by other people. He just visualises the emotion of such space and he creates them, barely deconstructing. He doesn't deconstruct. Do read his book: Breaking Ground.