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Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory is a landmark glasshouse at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado, celebrated for its striking modern design and extensive tropical and subtropical plant collections within more than 11,000 square feet of interior landscape. Designed in 1964 by Denver architects Victor Hornbein and Ed White Jr. and opened in 1966, it features high interlaced concrete arches filled with faceted Plexiglas panels, a form that also acknowledges benefactor Claude Boettcher of the Ideal Cement Company. Designated a Denver Landmark in 1973, its interior is arranged to suggest a tropical forest, highlighted by a fabricated two-story banyan tree.
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Denver, Colorado · United States
