You may recall the good news from this past February that Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is planning to move into a new building at 12th and Bannock in the Golden Triangle Museum District, plus physically relocate Vance Kirkland’s original 1911 studio building from its current site at 1311 Pearl Street to the new site and incorporate it into the project. At that time, only a quick concept sketch of the new building was available from Olson Kundig Architects.
For this update, we’re happy to report that the architects have been busy working on the design and there’s now this new rendering to share, courtesy of Olson Kundig and the Kirkland:
Groundbreaking is scheduled for 2015 with the Kirkland’s new open set to open in 2017.
Would I be correct that the far right depicts the original studio which is to be moved from its current site on Pearl Street?
yes
I wish they were also incorporating the existing building on site into the museum as well. The building must be around a hundred years old and its architecture is very interesting with cool brick arches. Sad to lose something like that. Though I’m sure the Kirkland Museum will be stunning and welcome it gladly to the Golden Triangle.
This site is fenced off but not the parking lot at the corner of 12th & Bannock, will the museum not come up to the corner there?
Looks like this morning they started fencing off the parking lot as well.
Yep I noticed that too. Any idea who the contractor is building it?
There is also construction fence up behind this project on Cherokee for the 18 story Eviva apartment tower.
It looks quite nice to me…….lots of horizontality 🙂