As Colorado students and educators settle into the school year and adapt to the many changes that the pandemic has forced, it is a good time to reflect on the current state of education. Teachers and school administrators have had to wrestle with unthinkable scenarios to ensure the health and safety of students and educators […]
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Posted inBook Excerpts, SunLit
On a picturesque coastal camp site, a Hearst heir wanted to build a vacation home. He hired Julia Morgan.
Phyllis J. Perry is an author of works of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She grew up in northern California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her doctorate degree at the University of Colorado Boulder. Perry worked in various capacities for the Boulder Valley Schools before retiring and devoting […]
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
A Colorado author grew familiar with the architecture of Julia Morgan from buildings on her college campus
Phyllis J. Perry is an author of works of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She grew up in northern California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her doctorate degree at the University of Colorado Boulder. Perry worked in various capacities for the Boulder Valley Schools before retiring and devoting […]
Posted inEnvironment, Growth, News, Transportation
Preserving Frank Lloyd Wright’s light touch on Vail Pass
The Colorado Department of Transportation project on Vail Pass seems simple enough: enhance and repair seven retaining walls on the west side of the pass. The task took about a week as crews focused on slowing the deterioration of walls built in 1975, part of a game-changing decade that carved I-70 through the mountains west […]
Posted inColoradans, Culture, Environment, Growth, Health, News
Is Denver’s contemporary architecture killing us?
In the not too distant future, a Colorado architect believes, someone will enter a novel, contemporary building designed with odd angles and sharp points, one of those places created to be “exciting” and “unusual,” and have a heart attack. And, this architect contends, as neuroscience advances and our understanding of neuroaesthetics deepens, the courts of […]
Posted inBusiness, Coloradans, Culture, Growth, News, Transportation
Nobody looked twice at the old Denver building that stored a fortune in vintage Porsches — until its turn for redevelopment came
For years, the low building on the corner of 22nd and California streets covered an entire half-block with a structure that barely warranted a second glance. It was a bland mash-up of what used to be three distinct buildings, long since connected to create an 18,000-square-foot space while its exterior brick, devoid of identifying signs, […]