CREJ - Journal

/ BUILDING DIALOGUE / MARCH 2015

Publisher’s Note

e have a little of both in this issue. While some in the workforce prefer, or are asked to

accept, collaborative workspace, others need, or are accustomed to, private space.

Our Sages and Stars represent the collaborative side of the coin. Mickey and Kyle

Zeppelin brought their LoDo and Golden Triangle magic to River North, home to Taxi,

Freight and the Source – places where lives intersect, where people collaborate. Such

projects make sense to Denver Start Up Week co-chair Justin Martinez, who believes Denver’s col-

laborative culture allows new business to flourish. And Ellen Winkler of Battery 621 and Industry

fame has taken the shared workspace movement even further.

Even landlord GSA is implementing open workspaces at the Denver Federal Center.

Katie Bisgard of Kieding casts another light on the workspace. Maybe private offices aren’t a

thing of the past after all. In fact, Bisgard writes that “the cumulative success of open plans is per-

petually up for debate.”

Feature stories this time around range from the new Saint Joseph Hospital – and its beautiful art

installations – to Steele Creek rising in Cherry Creek North and the ART hotel complementing Den-

ver’s Culture Center Complex, to senior living in downtown Denver and 1900 Sixteenth St. reaching

Platinum heights. Take a look at the new, distinctive Pueblo courthouse, the renovated Mapleton

School and the expanded Theotokos Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Boulder’s transit vision is coming

to life at Depot Square. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce is reimagined. And Fitzsimons

expands with Bioscience 2.

Great design is the theme of Cynthia Kemper’s Colorado Pulse column while Beth Mosenthal

encourages the architecture industry to leap into the 21st century in her Creative Content column

and Jenny West explores employee wellness in Moving Forward.

Trends in this issue run the gamut, from adaptive reuse to retail development and restaurant

design, and from workplace acoustics to river restoration. Construction trends are seen in training

a newworkforce, building with new floor technology and selecting – or provividing – the right bid.

Higher education is shifting from books to technology while trends in lighting design achieve net

zero results at NREL.

Please keep the great ideas coming. Let me knowwhat you want to write, what you want to read.

And thank you for all of the encouragement, kind words and enthusiasm as we continue building

the dialogue.

Kris Oppermann Stern

Publisher

pri·vate

adjective

\’prīvit\ belonging to or for the use of one particular person

share

verb

\SHer\ past tense: shared; past participle: shared

use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others