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The Mile-High ClubWhy experimental architecture isn't working out for Denver.

By Witold Rybczynski
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 6:31 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about Daniel Libeskind's new addition to the Denver Art Museum.

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In 2003, Christopher Hawthorne criticized Libeskind's proposal for the World Trade Center site and included Libeskind's proposal for the Denver Art Museum in his survey of contemporary architecture. In 2005, Witold Rybczynski deconstructed the process of designing an art museum, using the example of the Barnes Foundation. Last month, he assessed Libeskind's peer Zaha Hadid.

Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic.

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