See how Denver reimagined Skyline Park, one acre of embattled land in the heart of the city

Famed architect Lawrence Halprin, who died in 2009, first imagined the park in the 1950s, when downtown Denver was being revitalized. Halprin studied Colorado geography and made what was effectively a three-block sculpture, sunk below street level, with many fountains, based on the state’s topography, according to the Cultural Landscape Foundation.