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Doors Open Denver
Tom Lundin here for The Denver Eye… I want to thank you for voting for this photo
in the 2011 Doors Open Denver photo contest, sponsored by Mike’s Camera. I won
two awards, People’s Choice and overall Grand Prize!
This photo is looking out the Sheraton windows at their own reflection in the glass walls
across the street.
Again, thank you readers, thanks to the Doors Open Denver judges and thanks to the
folks at Mike’s Camera!
May 27th, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Boulder International-style
An International-style house on ‘The Hill’ in Boulder, designed by Glen Huntington,
sometime in the 1930s, I presume.
May 26th, 2011 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Morris house
And on the other side of 8th Ave near Cheesman Park, this 1961 Formalist house designed
1961 by Langdon Morris & Carl Groos.
(Architect names gleaned from the incredible guidebook The Mid-Century Modern
House in Denver by Michael Paglia and Diane Wray Tomasso.)
May 20th, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Cavode House
1950 International-style house just outside of Cheesman Park. Designed by Joseph
and Louise Marlow.
I included this closeup to more clearly detail how the entranceway was designed to allow
the tree to pierce the roofline.
May 19th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Arapaho Hills
Finally took a photo of this home in Littleton’s Arapaho Hills that I am happy with (click to enlarge). It was designed in late-1950s (probably 1957) by Mannon Associates. Arapaho Hills was a follow-up development to Englewood’s Arapahoe Acres.
The low horizontal profile is deceiving… if you look at the size of the front door, you realize that the wall on the left is taller than a person. The design is based on one of the two Reed Houses in Arapahoe Acres. (Look here)
May 5th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Bye bye Big Top
Yesterday I drove by to take an updated photo of this building, one of the better
examples of the old ’50s-era Big Top/Automart stores designed by William Sayer.
Unfortunately it was gone.
You probably drive by one or two of these on a daily basis, they are each of a slightly
different design. One thing they all have in common is the hexagonal tent-like roof of
intersecting hyperbolic paraboloids made of 3 inch reinforced concrete.
It’s a shame, out of the dozen or so of these structures still standing, this one was my
favorite due to the checkered paint on the roof edge, the intact glass and the diamond
panels. (These photos were taken a year or two ago.)
Please comment if you know details about these old stores!
May 4th, 2011 / 4 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Corner office of Red Cross Building
Looking at the main office in the corner of the Red Cross Building near Speer, designed
1951 by Edwin Francis. (Click photo to enlarge)
Taken at Doors Open Denver last weekend.
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(Nice to see Governer Hickenlooper at Kulwicki benefit tonight at the Larimer Lounge!)
April 24th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Art Deco home
Art Deco house designed by Charles Jaka in 1931.
Jaka also designed the Art Deco Cruise Room in The Oxford Hotel (1933).
April 20th, 2011 / 4 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
The Matchless
The Matchless restaurant with it’s distinctive barrel-shaped roof, part
of I.M. Pei’s original Mile High Center.
While portions of the Mile High Center survive, the site of The Matchless
is now part of the Wells Fargo Center (One United Bank Center by Philip Johnson)
April 14th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
