Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum features two distinct structures connected by an enclosed bridge. The North Building, designed by Gio Ponti, resembles a fortress with its thick, windowless gray walls covered in over a million glass tiles. In nineteen seventy-one, Ponti wanted the museum to feel like a castle for the people, creating a space where the art mattered more than the architecture itself. He often joked that he designed a giant castle to keep the paintings safe from the harsh mountain sun.