Westin Riverfront Resort and Spa
Avon, Colorado

The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa is the first hotel in the state of Colorado to achieve LEED Silver certification and provides 210 guest rooms, 107 time-shares, 4,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space, and a 23,000 square foot spa. Situated on a 19 acre parcel of land overlooking the Eagle River, the Westin is the threshold for a new pedestrian path and gondola that unites town, river, and mountain. The new Riverfront Express Gondola, with its base terminus adjacent to the resort, will take skiers to nearby Beaver Creek and Bachelor Gulch in three minutes.

The architecture of the Westin responds to the context and ambiance of both the existing town of Avon and the adjacent resort of Beaver Creek. Beaver Creek architecture makes use of traditional American alpine building materials and design, while Avon has a much more popular, commercial feel. Hornberger + Worstell’s design team synthesized an architectural derivative of both of these settings to create a building that forms a stylistic bridge. The architecture of the Westin therefore belongs to, and mediates, these contrasting settings.