720 E Hyman

Year:

1976 more 70s

Architect:

Robin Molny

Type:

commercial

At 720 E. Hyman Avenue, is Robin Molny’s Aspen Athletic Club of 1976, his only unaltered commercial building. A massive cube with three stories of offices above grade and an athletic club in the basement, it shares with Benton’s Patio Building a Wrightian sense of materials, prominent flat roof, and massive capstone floor cantilevered over a glazed lower floor. The heavy timber construction with glue-laminated wood beams and columns, contrasts with the glass atrium in the lobby, the open floor plan, and interior/exterior courtyard.