Weird angles are no problem for the Convergence Station, Denver’s recently opened art space.
Photos: Parrish Ruiz de Velasco. Illustration: Stephanie Davidson
Under a Denver Highway, Artists Find Space for the Surreal
The art collective Meow Wolf worked with local architects to create a trippy “Convergence Station” on a wedge-shaped site beneath a busy interstate.
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The site was not an easy sell. Sandwiched between overpasses in a highway cloverleaf in central Denver, any building would be framed on all sides by screaming traffic from Interstate 25 and a pair of off-ramps. The triangle-shaped lot was narrow — even for a flatiron building — and occupied by an old steel mill, which would need to be demolished before any new construction began.