The buildings comprising the campus of the Denver Art Museum amount to something of an exhibit themselves.
The seven-story, fortress-like North Building, a 210,000-sq-ft monument to modernism, allowed DAM to locate its entire collection under a single roof after the concrete facility was completed in 1971. Just to the south, and connected to the North Building by a pedestrian bridge that spans 13th Avenue, the 146,000-sq-ft, titanium-clad Frederic C. Hamilton Building opened in 2006. Its jagged, deconstructivist silhouette was inspired by the nearby peaks of the Rocky Mountains.