Tabor Center

Tabor Center

Tabor Center Damie Stillman
1984, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. 1600 Larimer St.

This superblock replaces the noble old Tabor Block (1880, Willoughby and Frank E. Edbrooke), erected by silver magnate Horace A. W. Tabor. Along the 16th Street Mall, a three-story, glazed galleria (Urban Design Group) bridges Lawrence Street with a span of shops 500 feet long. Exposed steel construction harks back to cast iron storefronts and public market structures. Behind the thirty-two-story office tower adjoining the nineteen-story Westin Hotel, at 17th and Larimer, pre-fabricated metal hindquarters mark the point where Tabor Center abandoned plans for a second, forty-story office tower after the 1983 oil crash.

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