International Style...
Curtain wall
One last curtain-wall building photo from downtown…
The famous Miesian Mile High Tower, part of the Mile High
Plaza designed 1956 by I.M. Pei and Henry Cobb. The plaza
is now incorporated into Philip Johnson’s Norwest Plaza.
July 27th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Mass House
Butterfly roof on the International-style Mass House in Arapahoe Acres. Designed
1951 by Eugene Sternberg.
July 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Park Hill Church
Entranceway to Park Hill Church, designed in the early 1950s by Eugene Sternberg
July 6th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
American Red Cross building
Originally the Van Hummell Building, designed 1951 by Edwin Francis.
June 1st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Ed Hawkins design
This modernist home in the Park Hill area was designed by Ed Hawkins, in the late ’40s, I believe.
Hawkins went on to build the majestic Arapahoe Acres.
May 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
International-style house
International-style house on Colorado Blvd, late-1940s (I presume)
May 25th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Folded-plate McDonalds
It’s sad, but this folded-plate roof building on the 16th Street Mall is now gone.
McDonalds is still there, but nothing of this ’60s-era building remains.
May 20th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Sculptured relief
Aluminum sculptured relief above the entranceway of the First National Bank building.
The bank was designed 1957 by Raymond Harry Ervin and is now called 621 17th Street.
May 19th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Boulder’s downtown ’skyscraper’
The Colorado Building, Boulder’s one downtown skyscraper. This building has a
heliport on the roof!
Designed 1955 by International Style architect James Hunter, this was once a Joslin’s.
April 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Stapleton Hanger 61
Hanger 61, designed 1959 by Fisher, Fisher and Davis at Denver’s previous airport,
Stapleton. A restoration success!
The concrete shell construction was engineered by Milo Ketchum.
April 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by admin
Sears in Cherry Creek
Cherry Creek Sears, circa 1959.
April 13th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Bonnie Brae International-style
An International-Style home on Bonnie Brae Blvd.
March 16th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Bonnie Brae streamline moderne
This nice example of a ’30s-era streamline moderne house on Bonnie Brae Boulevard has a near twin over on Monoco Parkway.
March 15th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Automart!
You have seen these all over town and wondered what they were, they were
Automart Grocery Stores from the 1950s.
I like this one on South Broadway best. it has the intact diamond panels and the now faint checkerboard faccia trim.
March 12th, 2010 / 3 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Sternberg mountain cabin
1960’s-era mountain cabin designed by Colorado architect Eugene Sternberg in Evergreen.
Sternberg is well known for designing many of the first homes for Arapahoe Acres (including the innovative street plan) as well as many International-style buildings throughout Littleton.
Here is the beautiful view from the deck of this cabin.
February 26th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
