Denver's dashing new landmark consists of 2,700 tons of steel in an awesome angle. The Denver Art Museum expansion was inspired by the Rockies and designed to be a signature landmark for the city of Denver. The plans called for transforming more than 2,700 tons of steel into a complicated skeleton that would support and create oblique angles. Keeping the whole thing together was Tekla Structures.
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) expansion, also called the Frederic C. Hamilton Building, was designed by well-known architect Daniel Libeskind in collaboration with Denver-based Davis Partnership Architects. Libeskind says to have been inspired by the light and geology of the famous North American mountain range, the Rockies, and that he copied the shapes for the building through an airplane window while flying over the mountains. The building project intends to put Denver on the architectural map of the world. Construction of the expansion took three years, with up to 200 people working on different parts of the building each day. Installation of more than 9,000 façade panels of titanium started in 2004. The building was opened to the public on October 7, 2006.
