Cheyenne Children’s Museum. The tours on Saturday started with the new children’s museum located in the West Edge area of Cheyenne. The designers of the project, Rachel Delventhal and Kendra Shirley of Studio Red, led the tour and explained that it was designed for experiential learning from a child’s perspective. It is the initial piece of a larger vision for a new interactive hands-on center for young minds to explore science, technology, engineering, art and math-based (STEAM) exhibits, providing a place for those with physical, sensory, intellectual and mental disabilities. MHP Regional Headquarters. The new regional headquarters, designed by Winters Griffith Architects for a 90+ employee accounting firm, was an adaptive reuse transforming a warehouse built in the early 1900s into a modern workspace that seamlessly blended historical charm with contemporary functionality. Jamie Winters led the tour. Cheyenne’s Historic West Edge Reimagined. As a fitting finale for a conference focused on “Edges,” participants were treated to a walking tour of the West Edge district of Cheyenne, led by Mark Christensen of AVI. Participants learned how, by addressing flood control, mitigating brownfields and providing public spaces, the development set the stage for private investment to transform the stock of brick warehouses into a fresh and vibrant part of downtown. Acknowledgements Special thanks to the planning team who did the impossible and pulled this conference together in only 90 days. This included Rachael Delventhal, Clint Taylor, Ellen Martin, Kendra Shirley, Katelyn Larsen, Carl Kohut, Mitch Blake, Susanne Norton, our Executive Director Jessica Howard and myself as conference chair. We are also deeply grateful to our sponsors. These included our annual sponsor, Pella; conference sponsor, Sampson Construction; the two meal sponsors, Cator Ruma & Associates and Groathouse Construction; and all of our exhibitors. Blue Federal Credit Union deserves special recognition for providing the conference space nearly free of charge for our event. We also owe special thanks to the Wyoming Board of Architects and Landscape Architects for providing a grant in support of our keynote speaker. 26 WYOMING ARCHITECTURE .25
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