“Inspired by a glimpse of the Rocky Mountains gained as he first flew into Denver, Libeskind’s new building for the Denver Art Museum sits like an alien craft amid the civic grandeur of the mile-high city’s downtown. Docked at an angle on a vacant plot of land, its hull shimmers in the sun, the titanium surface reflecting the colours around it, silver and ochre fading into a brackish brown. The stern of the ship is a jumble of metal boxes, stacked any which way. Its prow looms over the adjoining road, jutting out toward the museum’s existing building, a grey crenellated mausoleum of a place.”