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Look behind the scenes of a wildly ambitious project from the world-renowned Design-Build program, Colorado Building Workshop. This is how 28 grad students on a limited budget make magic for a worthy cause.

In a region best known for the arresting beauty of its wide open spaces, Jackson-based architecture firm Carney Logan Burke creates dramatic, contextually-inspired structures to suit Wyoming’s majestic environs.

The building rests along a stretch of South Broadway in Englewood, an unassuming but iconic structure—part of the landscape’s fabric after so many decades but still as eye-catching as the day it first appeared.

Tucked between miles of rolling foothills sits a breathtaking new building on one of the nation’s most architecturally significant campuses. I went backstage to see how this modern marvel was born. C’mon, I’ll show you.

Wherein Denver Life Magazine sends your humble author to South Carolina for a taste of high living in the low country.

As we move swiftly through an age where time is both precious commodity and foundational necessity, the union of great design and high technology has given us a whole new generation of clocks and watches.

There were holes in the ceiling, but that wasn't nearly the worst of it. “It was overwhelming,” said the homeowner, “but we knew we wanted to be in this neighborhood, and we felt like we were getting a good deal.”

Never mind that it dates back 2,000 years. As any creative director or linguistic historian will tell you, to know the ampersand, to grapple with its origins and eccentricities, is to love it.

With more than 22 million residents, Mexico City is one of the largest metropolitan hubs in the world. It’s a place rich in history, food, arts, culture — and some truly world-class modern architecture.

River North (RiNo) quickly went from forgotten warehouse district to Denver’s hottest neighborhood. At its center is an old-fashioned market with a deliciously modern aesthetic. The architects explain.

The legacy of iconic design brand Herman Miller extends well beyond the bounds of tables or lounge chairs. It also encompasses some truly groundbreaking midcentury advertising.

The Moab landscape is hot and windy. For the leaders and students of Colorado Outward Bound School, it’s an ideal location — and one that calls for creative housing solutions.

After a generation of renown as an iconic hotel, a popular Denver landmark gets new life. Look inside the fresh and vibrant micro housing that blurs boundaries between young and old.

Denver’s Sushi Rama distinguishes itself with the use of kaiten, a conveyor belt-style delivery system that allows patrons to pick whatever bite-size portions they want as dishes pass by. The architects explain.

The world of LEGO has grown from simple plastic plaything to multi-billion dollar behemoth. But what can the Danish toymaker teach us about the buildings that populate our world? The LEGO Architect has some ideas.

In the face of a national health crisis, a wave of integrated design innovations, from facilities to technologies to consumer products, is disrupting the system and giving consumers better control of their own well-being.

When it comes to houses with a distinguished design pedigree, knowing what to update versus what to preserve is, at the very least, a thorny issue. Are certain homes permanently off-limits?

Before LIVstudio swooped transformed the new 24,000 square-foot Studio Como showroom, this was a distinctly unhip industrial space buried beneath hundreds of boxes of legal files which lined the floors in every direction.

Fort-Collins based OtterBox easily could have looked outward to design a new building for the creative teams who develop its products. Instead, it relied on in-house talent and a core understanding of its own brand.

A candid Q&A with the minds behind the ambitious expansion of a Cherry Creek mainstay: John Gabbert, Founder and CEO of Room & Board, and Jeff Sheppard of Roth Sheppard Architects.

There are vast swaths of our lives that rely on the precise execution of clever, pragmatic, beautiful design: architecture, interiors, industrial design. But right now we’re thinking specifically about food.

Tucked away on the ground floor of a downtown Denver highrise sits a design studio waiting for its closeup. It’s a brand new space, and most of the neighbors haven’t seen it yet. But they will.

In architecture, the concept of balance is so fundamental as to be taken for granted. But while not exactly a novel idea, balance is the key ingredient holding all great buildings together.

The modern office is vastly evolved from what all but the most forward-thinking companies were doing a decade ago. This shift has done more than change the way our spaces look.