Photo © Semple Brown Design Denver’s Boettcher Concert Hall Boettcher Concert Hall, home of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, is barely known outside of Denver these days, but it wasn’t always so. Few remember the buzz surrounding its opening in 1978. Designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (with the late acoustician Christopher Jaffe) as a key component of the downtown Denver Performing Arts Complex, Boettcher was the first concert hall in the nation with “in the round” seating, a cutting-edge idea at the time. Critics loved the place. Photo © Architectural Record Boettcher featured in the March 1979 issue of Architectural

Image courtesy Svigals + Partners Svigals + Partners' proposed scheme for a new elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Dubbed "Main Street," this design is "like two arms embracing the children as they come in," says Barry Svigals. It’s one thing for an architect to design a new school, quite another when that school is on the site of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. The school has since been razed. In September, the town’s Public

Golden, Colorado, about 20 miles west of Denver, is probably best known for a certain beer brewed in a massive plant on the city’s eastern edge.

A Maggie's Centre, designed by Snøhetta, opened in Aberdeen, Scotland, on September 23. Architecture can’t cure cancer, but good design has the power to heal. That’s the philosophy behind Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, a network of drop-in facilities in Great Britain. The centers—17 and growing—are named for writer and landscape architect Maggie Keswick Jencks, who died of breast cancer in 1995. Married to the influential American architecture critic and landscape architect Charles Jencks, Maggie spent the last two years of her life conceiving a warm, inviting place where cancer patients could spend time learning how to cope with their disease