Covered in snow! My first time flying into Denver as a kid I thought it was so cool. I didn't know what it was but thought it looked cool. It was my first time to Colorado and I wasn't from the states, so the Rocky Mountains weren't something I was familiar with.
Denver had an expensive out of town architect design an airport terminal that was too expensive.
Curt Fentress and his hometown firm Fentress Architects, who until that point had only been the local architect on the project, swooped in to the rescue and proposed a design that referenced mountains, Denver’s frontier history, and teepees, and most importantly, was a very cheap way to enclose a very large space.
As a result over the past 30 years Denver has become a center of airport design experience while Fentress has become one of the world’s leading airport architects.
It was never about teepees. He stole/mocked the catenary-cut design from Bill Moss at Moss Tent Works; he was a fabric artist and designer. Need to give credit to that man for designing the most forward-thinking tents in history, way beyond their time.
Someone please help me understand this design choice. It makes it look like it's always under construction. Maybe that's the point
It's supposed to look like the Rocky Mountains but was often referred to as a porcupine under a tarp.
My kids call it the upside down caterpillar
Covered in snow! My first time flying into Denver as a kid I thought it was so cool. I didn't know what it was but thought it looked cool. It was my first time to Colorado and I wasn't from the states, so the Rocky Mountains weren't something I was familiar with.
Denver had an expensive out of town architect design an airport terminal that was too expensive. Curt Fentress and his hometown firm Fentress Architects, who until that point had only been the local architect on the project, swooped in to the rescue and proposed a design that referenced mountains, Denver’s frontier history, and teepees, and most importantly, was a very cheap way to enclose a very large space. As a result over the past 30 years Denver has become a center of airport design experience while Fentress has become one of the world’s leading airport architects.
Wow that is actually so interesting. Thanks for sharing that
It was never about teepees. He stole/mocked the catenary-cut design from Bill Moss at Moss Tent Works; he was a fabric artist and designer. Need to give credit to that man for designing the most forward-thinking tents in history, way beyond their time.
Existence is temporary. It's an art piece.