spirit towers

A reinvigorating landmark

Client: Confidential

Location: Denver, CO

Year: 2018

This commissioned project called for an iconic landmark, with the goal to culturally reinvigorate a relatively vacant region. The program called for two symmetrical office towers, which would gently sit atop of two converging volumes, forming an open area for various mixed programs; such as restaurants, galleries, and studios. Other peripheral programs would extend to the corner park area and train station. The project was largely intended to be a marketing piece, giving the locals a vision of what could be. Images produced at Shimahara Visual.

The playful yet dynamic presence of the architecture was a result of a synthesis of the natural and manmade elements of the site. Positioned between a busy highway, a canal, train tracks and it's station, it felt appropriate that the architecture would resonate a highly directional quality, from which a formal arrangement could emerge from. The interstitial corridor would provide a sense of respite from the surrounding forces. Like brush strokes in space, the gestural spatial containers are an expressive capture of all the forces present in the region. The project is a hub, a reductive formal arrangement, derived from the connectivity of overlapping and interwoven forces and flows of the area.