The Denver Eye http://www.thedenvereye.com Visualizing Denver's Past & Present Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:24:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Curtain wall http://www.thedenvereye.com/curtain-wall/ http://www.thedenvereye.com/curtain-wall/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:23:12 +0000 Tom Lundin http://www.thedenvereye.com/?p=1019 IMG_5399

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.

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Another Formalist high-rise with glass-curtain walls by Raymond
Harry Ervin, built 1962. Originally there were large “W”s on each
side of the rooftop box.

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One of Denver’s earlier skyscrapers, the Formalist First National
Bank Building.

Designed 1958 by Raymond Harry Ervin, the same architect who
designed the Art Deco Harry Huffman Mansion from the post
below.

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