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Article: Denver Regains Sense of Lost Wonder

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Let's run away with the circus! Or, if we're too old to imagine dangling from a trapeze, let's take a taxi out to the new Denver International Airport. This Big Top of an airport delivers the oohs and aahs, starting with the grand tent structure that encloses the main terminal.

Designed by the Denver firm of C.W. Fentress J.H. Bradburn Associates, the tent is made of Teflon-coated fabric, pieced together like sails. Parallel rows of masts lift the roof into a range of abstract snowcapped mountain peaks.

A technically sophisticated structure that picks up on the pioneering work of Frei Otto, the visionary designer of the tent structures for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the roof also ...

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