When the University of Colorado added a basketball/volleyball practice facility to the downhill side of the 40-year-old Coors Events Center, jaws in the Boulder skateboarding community ...
When the University of Colorado added a basketball/volleyball practice facility to the downhill side of the 40-year-old Coors Events Center, jaws in the Boulder skateboarding community must have immediately begun to drop. Denver-based Sink Combs Dethlefs Architects had anticipated this, however, and selected an elegant deterrent to daredevils that matched the new building's aesthetic of rough-hewn block and buff sandstone. Monumental stone walls befitting one of the primary access routes to the arena are topped with precast concrete caps bearing regularly spaced 4-inch-wide notches - materials that can comfortably withstand colder Colorado weather but are fabricated to be uniformly hard on skateboards and bodies.
