Davis Partnership Architects

Our Annual Year-End Holiday celebration challenged staff to solve a mystery, with clues hidden throughout the office. There were ten suspects, eight highly decorated spaces, loads of food and drinks, raffle prizes, and good people at every turn. Well, except for the one suspect who did it, they're definitely on the naughty list. And a BIG thanks to MillerKnoll and Workplace Resource for helping us furnish the theme!

The proposed West Side Development is an exciting new 300-acre, transit-oriented entertainment district in West Greeley. This groundbreaking project is envisioned as a vibrant mixed-use community with an arena (home to the Colorado Eagles and new opportunities for youth sports), a world-class water park, hotel, housing, and more. We are excited to be working to bring this to northern Colorado.

We’re thrilled to be part of the team for the proposed West Side Development in Greeley. The proposed amenities and mix of uses aims to support the rapidly growing community with vibrant places to live, work, and play. We’re excited to continue working to make sure the vision for this project reflects Greeley’s needs and values.

This past week, Kit Frey from our office led an engaging panel discussion on cohousing in the modern era. Cohousing, at its heart, is an intentional, self-governing, and cooperative community model where residents live in private homes clustered around shared spaces. The panel featured Charlie Lyon, a community member of Highline Crossing Cohousing, Ana Guia, a resident at X Denver, and in-house experts Genesis Mateo and AJ Ellis, all of whom have lived in diverse co-living environments. Their unique perspectives and passion for community living sparked a vibrant and thoughtful dialogue. We closed the discussion by revisiting the words of our friend Rick Griffith of MATTER, whose dialogue on design ethics continues to inspire us: “Need less and have it all.”

The Davis/Mortenson team is excited to announce that the Research and Innovation Laboratory (RAIL) at NREL has received multiple honors at this year’s National DBIA Awards. The project was recognized with four awards: National Merit Award in the Research Category, Best of Category Award for Research, Best Design/Build Engineering Award, and Enlightened Design/Build Owner Award. The project was also one of three to be nominated for the DBIA Project of the Year Award. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this exciting achievement!

At the end of October, the University of New Mexico Hospital marked a significant milestone with the groundbreaking of its new Children’s Psychiatric Center. This transformative renovation and expansion, a partnership with McClain+Yu Architecture & Design, is designed to broaden access to crucial psychiatric and behavioral health services for children across New Mexico. We are honored to play a small but meaningful role in this important social issue.

It's safe to say we all let our inner child thrive at Davis! From Dalmatians to Flintstones & Power Rangers, Halloween was more than just a bunch of Hocus Pocus. Tell us your favorite childhood character!

Well, it’s Halloween, and in typical Davis Partnership fashion, things got weird. Members of our staff dressed up as “The Many Faces of Ann Adams.” Anns included: Baking Ann, FACHA Ann, Partner Ann, Black Belt Ann, and of course, the OG herself. Is this healthy? We’ll let you be the judge.

Looking for a fun way to get to know and connect with your teammates better? As part of our N.A.A.M. (Not An Annual Meeting), we challenged everyone to identify the 6th grade version of their teammates in a game we called “Who am I?” It could also have been called “That didn’t age well” or “What was I thinking wearing that?”.

Along with our design partner from MAD Architects (Jon Kontuly), Karen Hailey, Jeff Stoecklein, and Tim Gordon will be presenting One River North at this week’s CSI 2024 BUILD Denver: RESI-bility Multi-Functional Multi-Family. Their panel will explore the unique design challenges, including the logistics of integrating nature into a high‐density urban environment, and share insights into the construction techniques that brought the vision to life, seamlessly blending architecture, nature, and community. We hope to see you there.

We were honored to have Dr. Jandel Allen-Davis, CEO of Craig Hospital join us at our recent N.A.A.M. (Not An Annual Meeting) to share her insights into culture and leadership. Particularly appropriate to our theme of connection was the idea that the vectors that allow for next-level organizational health and well-being are people. Many thanks to you, Dr. Allen-Davis, and to our partners at Craig Hospital for sharing her with us for the afternoon.