Originally published in the October 2015 issue of Robb Report Collection as “Night at the Museum”

Before guests even enter the new Art Hotel in Denver, they are greeted by a shimmering installation by Leo Villareal—the mastermind behind the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s The Bay Lights—fashioned from more than 22,000 white LED nodes that create perpetually shifting patterns in the ceiling of the porte cochere. Just inside lies a Claes Oldenburg steel-and-aluminum sculpture, along with Sol LeWi…