Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Denver
Klipp with Brennan Beer Gorman Architects
Geology inspires language of “sliding planes”
Big things are happening in Denver these days, perhaps best symbolized by the headline-grabbing expansion of the city’s art museum and its burgeoning cultural district. But tall things are happening, too, such as the completion of the city’s tallest building in 20 years: the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center. This 37-story tower contains 1,100 guest rooms and more than 60,000 square feet of meeting space. In planning the 1.5 million square foot complex, locally based Klipp partnered with Brennan Beer Gorman Architects, a New York-based firm that has experience designing convention center hotels for urban neighborhoods.
The architecture team drew inspiration from the Mile High City itself: both its rejuvenated, cosmopolitan feel and its geology. Denver sits at the dramatic junction where the high plains abruptly meet the tall peaks of the Rocky Mountains. The designers expressed this dynamism with “sliding planes,” a language of interlocking planes and layers that interlock or run perpendicular to each other, echoing the landscape.
A glass curtainwall wraps the main elevation of the building’s five-story podium, flanked on the interior by circulation spaces and lounges that comprise a zone that the architects have dubbed the “Glass Canyon.” Limestone, granite, and zinc panels clad the podium’s other exterior walls, while the towers above are clad in precast concrete panels and zinc. In addition to its guest rooms and meeting space, the Hyatt includes a 300-person, full-service restaurant, a coffee shop, and a first-floor bar; on the 27th floor, a lounge offers mountain views. An underground parking garage accommodates roughly 600 cars.
Formal name of project:
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Location:
Denver
Gross square footage:
1,250,000 sq. ft.
Total Construction Cost:
$163 million
Owner:
Denver Convention Center Hotel Authority
Architect:
klipp
1512 Larimer Square, Bridge Level
Denver, CO 80202
303-893-1990 tel.
303-893-2204 fax
www.klipparch.com
with
Brennan Beer Gorman Architects
515 Madison Ave., 4th Fl.
New York, NY 10022
212-888-7663 tel.
212-935-3868 fax
www.bbg-bbgm.com
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