Skyline Park, 1500-1800 Arapaho Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: Lawrence Halprin (b. 1916) is an internationally acclaimed landscape architect and urban designer. His firm, Lawrence Halprin Associates of San Francisco, California, produced numerous designs revered for their attention to principles of interactive human use, attention to ecological predicates, and inventive sculptural forms and spaces. Skyline Park, a small linear park located in the heart of downtown Denver, exemplifies Halprin's theoretical positions and reflected these ideals through its careful orchestration of sculptural concrete forms. As a contextually specific pedestrian system, the unique spaces also addressed the goals of urban renewal in downtown Denver, serving as the focal point of the Skyline Redevelopment Plan and as the nexus of a pedestrian and open space system. Although run-down at the time of demolition, Skyline Park exhibited nearly complete integrity of form and structure, and its three signature fountains, and brick and concrete walking and seating surfaces and finishes were largely intact.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N30
Survey number: HALS CO-1
Building/structure dates: 1973 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 2003 Demolished