Monumental Denver - an introduction

This will be a quick celebration of a few high-profile sites I've seen in these last two days in the Denver area cityscape, the highest of them being the mountains, whether snow-capped or not...

 

 looking west to the Rockies from a train on the very new "West Line" of the public transit RTD system

...and the rest of them, in this article, being in the adjacent Civic and Arts Center areas of downtown, including, most dramatically, though now close to seven years old, the Hamilton Wing of the Denver Art Museum, with its main statement arguably in its "prow" (as I'd call it) jutting out over West 13th Avenue as if to challenge the south elevation of the Denver Public Library (DPL) main branch to the right...

...or as seen from a plaza just outside of the DPL...

 

 ...and from below on 13th Street...

with some big neighbors keeping it company, including the sculpture "Denver Monoliths"...

looking north towards a tower of the DPL main library

and, more whimsically perhaps, "Big Sweep" by (not surprisingly) Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen.... 

 (accompanied by a protective plaque in front of it...)

In closing, I hope that I have faithfully followed the above rules and that this submission will win the approval of the Denver City government, its City Hall seen in the right-side background below...

[...with the Denver Art Museum 1971 wing to the left]

...the city's business establishment north of the arts and government cluster...

and the State government, wrapping this up in a sense under its now imprisoned Capitol dome...