Project Description

Stone that’s been here for centuries. Steel and glass that arrived last week. And somehow they agree.

This is the interior of the entrance pyramid at the Boulder Public Library — the view most people forget to take because they’re already moving through it. Looking straight up through the steel and glass structure, the geometry fractures the Colorado sky into triangles and diagonals while the original sandstone walls anchor everything below. It’s a conversation between old and new that neither side is losing.

The structural steel isn’t hidden here. It’s the point. Every node, every diagonal member, every glass panel is doing visible work — holding open sky above a building that already knew how to hold its ground. That’s the kind of architectural honesty that rewards a second look.

Look up. It’s worth the crick in your neck.