New Museum of Contemporary Art Denver opens this week

This week begins the inugural kick-off with tours and galas and a public opening on Sunday October 28.

via The Daily Camera

MCAD Updated Construction

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver - latest construction photo.

Via Denver Infill Blog

David Adjaye, future "Starchitect"

"this will be the year - thanks to a quartet of high-profile commissions coming to completion by this autumn - when we find out if Adjaye can really translate promise into achievement and begin to compete with the global "starchitects"."

"...the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Denver, Colorado, the job that will attract the most attention and whose success is key for Adjaye's push into America, where he will be opening a New York office by the end of 2007."

"The £7.5 million MCA in Denver, which opens in October, is a new four-storey building coated in etched grey, milky glass with interior walls of a special textured, translucent plastic enveloping five core galleries - each a distinct chamber accessed by an internal pathway. There will also be three education spaces, offices and a bookshop, plus a rooftop garden that will help to insulate the museum, a "green" building with high sustainability targets. There will be no permanent collection; the gallery rooms will be handed over to individual artists."

article via The Telegraph also BBC Radio 3 Broadcast Interview

UPDATE: 7/18 - maybe Don't Call him a Starchitect?

MCAD | Denver Announces Two Permanent Art and Landscape Commissions

"The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver), The city’s first institution devoted entirely to contemporary art, will inaugurate its new environmentally sustainable facility designed by David Adjaye, with two permanent commissions and an inaugural exhibition entitled Star Power: Museum as Body Electric. The two permanent commissioned works, both by Colorado-based artists, include a collaborative design for The Gates Rooftop Garden by artist Kim Dickey and landscape architect Karla Dakin and an exterior site-specific work by artist Clark Richert ." Opening October 28, 2007 . . . more to come.

via Artdaily and Cherry Creek News