GreenSpot Real Estate is housed in the GOOD Building, a building with solar PV providing 70 percent electricity offset. A mecca for green businesses, GOOD is also home to Namaste Solar, LEED (CS).
Built in 1929, the Dry Ice Factory is where Liquid Carbonic made dry ice, carbon dioxide and other soda fountain additives. It's now home to 30-plus artist studios and a co-op gallery, LEED (NC).
The office tower with the cool, floating top. Home to Xcel Energy, the building saves $212,000 a year in energy, and the developer got a $147,645 rebate for energy-efficiency, LEED Platinum.
"Starchitect" Philip Johnson designed the 52-story Wells Fargo Center for Texas, and heaters keep snow from sliding off the rounded roof and crushing pedestrians below. LEED gold, ENERGY STAR.
If density is a hallmark of green-ness, the SPIRE's the champ. With 496 condos, the building with the signature "blue zip" packs 'em in, yet has spaces like a Zen garden for chillin', LEED-certified.
Sugar and water indeed mix, and this 1908 mansion, was home to the founder of Denver Water Department, and later a Great Western Sugar heir. It became the governor's home in 1960, LEED EB (gold).
David Tryba & Co. are best known here for designing the Wellington Webb Building, the over-the-top Hotel Teatro, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the new Colorado History Museum, LEED EB.
Built in 1908, the Otero Building was at Denver's hub, by Union Station. Tattered Cover bought it in the '90s for book storage. Alliance is one of the LEED program's first existing building renos.
With Chipotle founder Steve Ells' mission of sourcing food sustainably and humanely, it's no surprise that the Chipotle headquarters bears a LEED certification - CI (for commercial interiors).
Humphries Poli has one of the coolest Art Deco/Moderne buildings in Denver. Built in 1950, the building originally served an insurance company for African-Americans nearby, LEED (CI - interiors).
The Colorado capitol was locally sourced -- its 272-foot-tall tower with marble from Gunnison, rose onyx inside from Beulah and the dome's gold donated by the Colorado Mining Association, LEED (EB).
The boat-shaped Webb Building is Denver's city hall, home to over 40 city agencies. Designed by David Owen Tryba Architects, it also houses a significant public art collection, LEED (EB, gold).
DU Law School was the first to be certified "green" - 'fitting given the school's renowned program of environmental and natural resource law. The building saves 40 percent on energy, LEED (NC, gold).
Green Cube is Denver's first LEED (platinum) single-family home. Flipping indoors and out, it has a "living" wall inside, artificial grass outside and a swamp cooler for summer cooling, ENERGY STAR.
Green pays, and how! Solera just sold for the highest price per square foot paid in Colorado ($333) and the same per unit ($308,000). Solar offsets 60% of the building's energy, LEED (gold).
When this Classically styled, Chicago-esque building was built in 2000, it cost developers, Continuum Partners, a nifty $55 million. Offices, retail and 23 penthouse lofts, LEED (EB) & ENERGY STAR.
The museum isn't a screamer. Architect David Adjaye lets the art do that. The "double-skin" facade with tinted glass re-circulates building air and looks like black milk at night, LEED (NC, gold).
The Denver Green School teaches students K-8 about readin', writin' and 'rithmetic through the lens of sustainability. Students also grow their own food, which is served in the cafeteria, LEED (EB).
SLATERPAULL Architects turned an old 1922 fire station into their uber-cool, red brick LoDo office. The space has energy-efficient "chilled beam" technology, which cools AND heats, LEED (NC, platinum)
