Denver residents don't want tilt-up

There was a letter posted on the Denver Post Web site yesterday where the writer states that he does not like the concrete slab walls in the Art Museum Project and does not want them for the Civic Center project. Our Technical Director agrees. The walls in front of the old museum (the Gio Ponti building) are cast-in-place concrete or tilt-up. Masonry offers a much more aesthetic feature to architecture than does tilt-up, and at the same cost. For the same dollars, why not use the more attractive material? Masonry has smaller modules and breaks up the visual surface of the wall. It does not have such a monolithic, brutal appearance at the pedestrian level.