The new Fort Collins Discovery Museum Announces its Groundbreaking Ceremony
August 23, 2010 | The Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center announces its groundbreaking ceremony. The ceremony will be held Saturday, September 11 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at the museum’s new location on the corner of Cherry and Mason Streets in Fort Collins, Colorado. read more »
Kigali -- from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore
August 21, 2010 | Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping. The Colorado-based OZ Architecture firm has developed a 50-year master plan for Kigali, incorporating a new international airport, and with entire districts of town given over respectively to shopping, offices, technology and medical facilities. read more »
Two books, one long look at Denver architecture
July 10, 2010 | Nothing records an era quite as reliably as architecture. History may lie, but buildings tell their own stories. The point is driven home by two new photo books offering snapshots of Denver then and now. The slim, soft-covered "Denver's Early Architecture" captures the city's elegant building boom of roughly 1880 to 1920, when Denver was just joining the lineup of American metropolises, and builders aimed to show off its affluence to a growing populace and fresh class of tourists. read more »
Kigali Conceptual Master Plan Wins ASLA's 2010 Excellence Award
April 27, 2010 | The Kigali Conceptual Master Plan of Rwanda’s capitol city, Kigali, in Africa was awarded the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Excellence Award. OZ Architecture in collaboration with EDAW, TetraTech, ERA and Engineers Without Borders, developed the master plan which was adopted by the Rwandan government in May 2008. read more »
Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center Opens on Time, on Budget
April 21, 2010 | Construction is complete on Denver’s new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, one of four new buildings that make up the Denver Justice Center downtown. OZ Architecture was the Architect of Record for the Detention Center. read more »
Jim Bershof, Principal at OZ, is Elevated to Fellow of American Institute of Architects
March 24, 2010 | Jim Bershof, FAIA, LEED AP, President of OZ Architecture of Denver, has been elevated to the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Architects (AIA). This honor is awarded to members who have made significant contributions to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. read more »
Pedestrian Union Gateway Bridge in Denver’s Central Platte Valley opens Friday
March 04, 2010 | The Union Gateway Bridge, a pedestrian bridge at 18th Street that was designed by OZ, has been completed and opens Friday. The 170-foot-long bridge connects the Riverfront Park residential/commercial development along 18th Street with the Union Station area, which is being redeveloped as a transportation hub for all of metro Denver. read more »
New Hire Announced at OZ
January 01, 2010 | Michelle Liebling recently joined OZ Architecture’s interior design team, bringing over 15 years of related experience to the firm. Liebling is an award winning Senior Interior Designer whose portfolio ranges from large scale corporate facilities to residential and hospitality projects. read more »
OZ named Designer for Fort Collins Science Center
November 09, 2009 | OZ Architecture and Hensel Phelps Construct-ion Co. have been chosen to design and build the new Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center on the corner of Cherry and Mason streets. read more »
City of Durango unveils detailed design of new transit center
February 08, 2008 | The city of Durango presented detailed renderings of the new transit center to a small group from the public Thursday. Local architect Dean Brookie, who designed the new center in collaboration with OZ Architecture, showed a crowd of about 20 people details of how the center will look. No one spoke in opposition to the center. read more »