In 2007, Allied Works was selected to design the Clyfford Still Museum, a single-artist institution devoted to the life and work of one of the 20th century’s most influential and enigmatic painters. The site for the museum resides in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado, a district inhabited by buildings of grand collective and cultural narrative.

The 28,000 sf museum mediates this setting with two distinct acts of architecture. The first prepares the site by creating a dense grove of decid...