A beautiful Saturday morning it is in the Mile High City, as usual. Perfect for the Denver Art Museum’s grand opening of its Daniel Libeskind-designed expansion, and perfect for a bit of DenverInfill photo-taking too. From left to right:

1. By 8AM, hundreds of people were already in line waiting for the 9AM opening of the box office for this weekend’s 35-hour grand opening extravaganza of the new Denver Art Museum building. The crowd waits in the new Martin Plaza between the Libeskind-designed museum residences (left) and museum (right).

2. A few blocks to the south, the new tower crane for the 16-story 816 Acoma project rises above Downtown’s Golden Triangle neighborhood.

3. Boulder’s Kutandara Center Marimba Ensemble, as seen through the legs of “Spider” an 11-foot tall sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, entertains the early-morning crowd.

4. By 9AM, the queue stretched around the corner, down 12th Avenue, to Broadway. Rising in the background is the post-modern Denver Central Library by Michael Graves and the Denver skyline.


Meanwhile, on the other side of Downtown, progress continues on the new Highland Bridge. Two workers were already on site this morning as the sun peeked above the new Glass House towers across the river. The pedestrian deck was recently installed across the highway. For photos of the installation of the big white arch, check out my blog of August 7.