Colorado Convention Center, Phases I-III

Fentress Architect’s design for the Colorado Convention Center features dramatic, cantilevered stainless steel roof planes and extensive transparent curtainwalls.  It also marks Denver’s downtown district and redefines the city’s skyline. An expansive façade wraps the existing, operational convention center in grand, transparent public spaces, while also doubling the amount of exhibition and preregistration space.

The center’s luminous lobbies are bathed in natural light that washes over art pieces, circular light fixtures and a host of other humanizing elements. These features give patrons a moment of repose to orient themselves before proceeding down the Grand Concourse or up escalators to the exhibit hall.

Flexibility & Functionality

The facility is altogether designed to maximize flexibility and thereby meet the needs of large, midsize and small conventions. For example, moveable wall partitions allow the exhibit hall to be divided into a dozen different configurations and up to six rooms, each with its own audiovisual capabilities and access to bathrooms, concessions and loading docks. For added convenience, 75-foot-long semitrailer trucks can drive directly onto the exhibit floor to unload large exhibits.