Denver Building Blocks

(Alert: this post has 15 links. If you're curious about which building is which, just go look at this picture, which has all the buildings identified. And then you can ignore the rest of the underlined text in the following post.)

My submission for Jaime's sixth - and final - exhibit, Wonder Room, at the Denver Community Museum: 9 replica blocks of some of Denver's most iconic Buildings, as decided by me:

Cash Register Building (Philip Johnson, 1983)

Museum of Contemporary Art (David Adjaye, 2007)

Colorado Convention Center (with Lawrence Argent's "I See What You Mean," aka Big Blue Bear, 2005)

Casa Bonita (built in 1974, with real cliff divers! and poisonous food)

Denver International Airport (completed by Fentress Architects of Denver, 2005)

Daniels & Fisher Tower (tallest building W of the Mississippi in 1910!)

Denver Art Museum, Frederic C. Hamilton Building (Daniel Libeskind, 2006)

Denver Community Museum (Temporary pop-up gallery curated by our very own Jaime Kopke, 2008-2009)

and of course the Rocky Mountains, built 3,980 million – 600 million years ago

I cut the shapes out of Aspen wood with a jigsaw:

then sanded and printed them with patterns with my gocco printer:

and then dropped them off at the gallery where viewers will be able to rearrange them and play city planner.

I had planned to include more buildings, like the Denver Public Library, Tom's Diner, and various buildings with enormous signs like the sausage factory and Sherwin Williams Paint signs in Five Points and Olingers Mortuary in the Highlands. But I can barely lift my arms above my head after wielding the jigsaw and sanding, hunched over in the freezing garage, for hours. So I'm glad I cut myself off. Time-wise, not finger-wise :)