FEDERAL EXPRESS FACILITY
Durango, Colorado

Office/Warehouse
New Construction
Square Feet: 12,000
Cost: $1 million
Project Date: 1995

Federal Express needed a facility to serve its customers in Southern Colorado. Intermodal Structures, the
developer for this project, hired BlueSky Studio to create a building that efficiently served the needs of
FedEx, blended into the landscape of a Durango industrial park and also echoed the regional architecture
of the Four Corners area.

The design concept was to provide a very economical building that also reflected the stylistic requirements
of Federal Express in a modern and “forward reaching” structure. The design sought to seamlessly meld
the modern and industrial with the Four Corners vernacular styles of Mesa Verde, mountain towns and the
western slope.

One concept used was the front entry “false wall” facade, architecture typical of Colorado
mining towns. The palette of materials used included: concrete block, exposed steel and glass