A University of Colorado outpost, by architect Harry Weese, in Aspen, may be demolished. The school wants to close the Given Institute and sell it. The most likely buyer will pay $15M but only if the building is demolished first. It's a tough time for Modernist buildings in locations where people who actually have money want to put something else. It appears as though the only possible hope is that the city of Aspen might purchase it. But no one's real optimistic about getting residents to vote positive for that.

The dispute over the Given comes at a time of renewed interest in Weese, who died in 1998. A recent article in Chicago magazine chronicled the architect’s thriving career in the 1960s and 1970s and his alcohol-fueled decline. And architectural historian Robert Bruegmann has written the forthcoming bookThe Architecture of Harry Weese, the first critical study of the architect’s work.