Haha! Ken, you would applaud an ISIS compound if it meant development for another surface parking lot in downtown Denver. Your standards for this city are incredibly low; you accept anything for the sake of "infill development" with total disregard for the growing monotony of a single architectural aesthetic. Can't you think outside of the brown box? (pun intended)
True, buildings have (and always will) feature materials from the earth since the "dawn of civilization". But on that same token, we're also no longer using rocks to carve drawings on cave walls. We have Facebook and Twitter now.
I wrote out four paragraphs. And then, I realized, I know who this guy is and I'm not going to waste precious energy.
I love Denver!!!
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Response to 5 Story Stick Builds: "Er'yone just mad 'cuz instead of Denver lookin' like Paris on the Platte it be lookin' like Paris, Texas on the Platte."