The Paepckes donated this site for the University of Colorado's medical institute. The concrete-block building, one of Aspen's finest Modernist works, gives a playful rigor to a simple circle with angular extensions. Harry Weese, a distinguished Chicago Modernist, also designed the Lavatelli House at Snowmass and the Baird House in Aspen.
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