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June 2019 \ BUILDING DIALOGUE \ 87 OPENING ART: Financial House is the first all-curtain-wall building in Cherry Creek North, setting a precedent in the neighborhood. Courtesy Rocky Mountain Photography. LEFT: Making sure the building engaged with the street, the design features heightened articulation and detail at the retail space and on the curtain wall around-the-corner entrance. TOP: A courtyard on the north side of the lobby is the focal point. BOTTOM: The building's entrance is a part of the curtain wall design. Another issue was providing enough parking on the 12,500-square-foot parcel. The initial designs called for three sto- ries of below-grade parking, but that was consolidated to two sto- ries with car stackers on one level. “That is a pretty unique part of the building,” says Belsey. “The cost and scheduling savings – and where the water table was – it was a lot more beneficial to do car stackers.” Regardless, Belsey says the project stuck to its target timeline af- ter groundbreaking in late 2017. “It was a pretty fast schedule,” he notes. “We were up to grade in about four months, we topped out six months after that and were fully enclosed six months after that.” / Looking Glass: Financial House is Cherry Creek North’s 1st All-Glass Building / PROJECT TEAM DEVELOPER: BMC Investments, Denver GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Haselden Construction, Centennial ARCHITECT: 4240 Architecture, Denver STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: CKC Structural Engineers, Bellevue, Washington INTERIOR DESIGNER: AvroKO, New York/San Francisco IMAGES: 4240 Architecture