The new Ent Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs arrives with all the optimism that forward-thinking architecture can deliver.
The building — monumental at 92,000 square feet and pricey at $70 million — is an investment in things real and symbolic. It will give the University of Colorado practical, state-of-the art classrooms for students endeavoring to be tomorrow’s creative class, and it will boost the Springs location to the top of the facilities hill in the state university system. No other outpost has a venue quite like it, not even the prestigious Boulder campus.
