Libeskind will be in Denver Feb. 27 to speak at a Downtown Denver Partnership forum called "Making Places." He will discuss architecture and the impact it has on the image of downtown Denver. He will especially focus on the Denver Art Museum expansion.
By the time he arrives in Denver, it may be known whether the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the Port Authority and state and local government representatives have picked a winner for the World Trade Center site.
Libeskind's design consists of a museum at the epicenter of Ground Zero, which leads out into a memorial space, where the huge retaining walls of the World Trade Center's basement would be kept untouched. One of the surrounding buildings would tower to 1,776 feet, making it the world's tallest.
The other design selected for the site is a World Cultural Center design from a team of architects led by New York-based Rafael Vinoly and Frederic Schwartz known as THINK.
"We are thrilled for Daniel and his team," says Lewis Sharp, director of the Denver Art Museum. "He has shown incredible sensitivity, innovation and dedication throughout our museum expansion project and I have no doubt that he will do the same for New York."
Libeskind, who also designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, was selected as the lead architect for the Denver Art Museum expansion in July 2000. The museum expansion will be the first North American building completed by Libeskind. The 146,000-sf expansion will nearly double the size of the existing museum and provide dramatic new spaces for special exhibitions and permanent collection galleries. Construction of the building, at 13th Avenue and Acoma Street in downtown Denver, will begin later this year, with an expected 2006 opening.
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