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Denver Colorado - Denver Art Museum - North Building - Design by Gio Ponti 1971

Denver Art Museum: The North Building at DAM — designed by Gio Ponti in 1971.

The North Building, a seven-story 210,000-square-foot addition, opened in 1971, allowing the museum to finally display its collections under one roof.[4] The building was designed by Italian modernist architect Gio Ponti, with local architects James Sudler Associates of Denver. Ponti said, “Art is a treasure, and these thin but jealous walls defend it.”[5] It is his only completed design built in the United States.[4] Ponti wanted the DAM building, housing the important art within, to break from the traditional museum archetypes. The two-towered "castle-like" façade has 24 sides, and more than one million reflective glass tiles, designed by Dow Corning, cover the building’s exterior

The Denver Art Museum — DAM is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. The museum is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago.[ It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and its other collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world

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