People walk past the 35-foot tall, 65-foot diameter “Epicenter” sculpture as they enter the new Weidner Field Friday night, April 23, 2021. The $4.5 million sculpture at the entrance to the soccer stadium was reveal to an invited crowd during a tour of the new facility. The Switchbacks play their first match at the stadium Saturday in a preseason game against Orange County. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
Christian Murdock/The Gazette
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, right, walks past new outdoor lockers during the opening of the Welcome Center at the Springs Rescue Mission in Colorado Springs on Thursday, April 29, 2021. The Welcome Center serves as the point of entry to the Springs Rescue Mission campus, which will increase safety while creating a space for men and women who are experiencing homelessness and addiction. In addition to the point of entry, the 3,000-square-foot Welcome Center has a mailroom for people to receive mail and a kennel for pets. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes riverside Tianjin Juilliard School in China
Four steel and concrete pavilions linked by glass bridges make up the Tianjin Juilliard School, which New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed in northeastern China.
The 32,500-square-metre performing arts institution next to the Hai River in Tianjin is the branch campus of the Juilliard School in New York, which Diller Scofidio + Renfro also created.
Like its US counterpart, the Tianjin Juilliard School has a mix of performance and teaching spaces, alongside communal areas and large portions of glazing that offer glimpses inside.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed the Tianjin Juilliard School
The local museum has been nominated for
USA Todayâs 2021 10Best Readersâ Choice award for Best New Museum. The Springs nominee previously won the
USA Today contest for Best New Attraction of 2020 and has been recognized by several other national publications, including
The New York Times,
Conde Nast Traveler and
Architectural Digest.
As of Monday, May 3, the local museum had received the second-most votes, trailing behind Cook Museum of Natural Science, which opened in 2019 in Decatur, Alabama.
Part of the City for Champions development projects, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum broke ground in 2017 and opened its doors for the first time on July 30, 2020. Completing the 60,000-square-foot building, which was inspired by the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, cost roughly $91 million.