Article: Summit, Colorado Springs.(Best New Design)(best restaurants in 2006)

THE GRANDE DAME RESORT the Broadmoor, which opened in 1918, has long needed a total rehab, and it got one to the tune of $78 million last year. But it also needed a first-rate modern restaurant, and Summit exceeds expectations. Adam Tihany's playful bur graceful Rocky Mountain design gently evokes Colorado's silver-mine architecture, using steel I beams and rustic stone along with wraparound glass that looks out on the Broadmoor mountainscape. Two thousand wine bottles are arrayed in an exquisitely crafted glass tower that is a smaller rendering of Tihany's forty-two-footer at Aureole in Las Vegas.

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