Vail Valley Home Magazine
Building Awe

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Vail Valley Home, February 2019 · Written by Kimberly Nicoletti

“Building Awe” profiles Brian Sipes. After studying architecture at the University of Kansas, he joined Zehren and Associates in the Vail Valley in 1995. As a principal there, he was architect of record and LEED champion for the Walking Mountains Science Center in Avon, which the article describes as the first commercial building on the Western Slope to achieve LEED Platinum. He moved to Rowland + Broughton in Denver in 2011 and returned in 2014 to open Sipes Architects in Minturn, making Todd Biekkola a partner in 2018. The profile covers his eight years on the Avon Town Council, a Manor Vail Lodge project that built over the existing structure to add rooms without blocking neighbors’ views, and a modern addition to a log cabin in Minturn.

“Curiosity is the fuel that drives our practice.”
— Brian Sipes

Published in Vail Valley Home. Related project: Walking Mountains Science Center. The full article appears below.

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Published On: January 28, 2019

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