DENVER | Main Development Thread #7 - Page 38

Fritzdude · #**741** Posted **Jun 14, 2017, 8:23 PM**

As much as I like to see new developments sprout up around the city, I get as much satisfaction at seeing current buildings get redeveloped and improved. The old Sausage warehouse at 26th and Walnut (not sure what was actually inside) is getting a make-over and will have their sidewalks upgraded. I walked around inside and the brick walls look great! I hear that it will be a number of things, which include art studios. It's a great building and will definitely help out the neighborhood.

I'm just happy that I don't have to trip on these bad sidewalks on my walk home.

TakeFive · #**742** Posted **Jun 15, 2017, 9:00 PM**

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As much as I like to see new developments sprout up around the city, I get as much satisfaction at seeing current buildings get redeveloped and improved.

Courtesy Studio PBA via Denverite

Affordable housing construction starts at 24th and Stout
June 14, 2017 by Megan Arellano - Denverite

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What’s so special about the 13 new income-restricted units under construction at 24th and Stout? These ones are for sale.

ejwill04 · #**743** Posted **Jun 16, 2017, 1:10 AM**

Market Street Station is targeting an August groundbreaking

http://www.businessden.com/2017/06/15/continuum-releases-renderings-former-16th-street-bus-station/

TakeFive · #**744** Posted **Jun 16, 2017, 2:37 AM**

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Market Street Station is targeting an August groundbreaking

http://www.businessden.com/2017/06/15/continuum-releases-renderings-former-16th-street-bus-station/

Now that Dairy Block is wrapping up and winding down it's time for a new favorite project.

Rendering courtesy of BOKA Powell via BusinessDen

corey · #**745** Posted **Jun 16, 2017, 5:42 AM**

I like Market Street Station a lot. I find it interesting that late 1970's - early 1980's style is coming back around. Neo Post Brutalism? These buildings remind me of my high school building constructed around 1980. EVERYTHING comes back around eventually! I guess we will already be seeing Neo Postmodern buildings (i.e. Richard Graves and Robert Venturi) in the next few years.

mr1138 · #**746** Posted **Jun 16, 2017, 4:30 PM**

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I like Market Street Station a lot. I find it interesting that late 1970's - early 1980's style is coming back around. Neo Post Brutalism? These buildings remind me of my high school building constructed around 1980. EVERYTHING comes back around eventually! I guess we will already be seeing Neo Postmodern buildings (i.e. Richard Graves and Robert Venturi) in the next few years.

Everything, I guess, except for honest interpretations of historic styles (think Classical, Gothic, Romanesque, etc). I keep thinking that maybe, one of these days, postmodernism will morph into a series of revivalist movements. But I've been thinking this for years now, and it appears instead that it morphed into an entirely new aesthetic of space-age forms.

You're right though, it seems as though the architecture profession is moving into an era of neo-modernism, and hasn't felt any need (or pressure from its clients) to explore something like neo-deco or something beyond one or two obscure examples.

Oh well... it's never too late. It took Classicism over 1,000 years to have its first comeback, and then had comeback after comeback for the next 400 years or so. I just wonder when architects will finally stop with their fetish for Ayn Rand style "originalism."

Back to the original topic though, I actually quite like the Market Street development too. I especially like the way that it's going to use the alley to create another pedestrian street (Did this end up coming to fruition at Dairy Block too?).

pablosan · #**747** Posted **Jun 17, 2017, 1:36 AM**

A little bit of construction going on.

twister244 · #**748** Posted **Jun 19, 2017, 4:29 PM**

More news on the World Trade Center front.

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2...ed-contractor-chosen-to-build-world.html

Cirrus · #**749** Posted **Jun 19, 2017, 9:56 PM**

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the architecture profession is moving into an era of neo-modernism

I don't think they're "moving into" it. I think they're solidly in it, and have been for years. That's why we're getting a generation of glass curtain walls.

If anything I actually think we're maybe on the downslope of neo-modernism, and beginning to see inklings of being ready to move on to something else. For example, the academic establishment that's usually so conservative in its dedication to the dogma of modernism was surprisingly receptive to this.

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mr1138 · #**750** Posted **Jun 19, 2017, 11:17 PM**

^ Fair point. Another way of looking at it is that Modernism never really went away, but rather has been continuously evolving in its materials and construction techniques even during the rise (and fall?) of Postmodernism.

Postmodernism, to me, is actually at least two very different things. Something whimsical like the Denver Library, the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, or the AT&T Building in NYC seems inherently different from the exploration of space-age or natural forms like we see in something like DIA, the Sydney Opera House, or something like the Guggenheim Bilbao. I suppose sometimes we lack the words to even define these things until after they have passed.

And I love that building in The Netherlands! It'd be great to see more sincere neo-traditionalism like that with a modern twist. A lot of that has to do with finding builders and investors willing to spend money on fun little extras like those Emoji Metopes, or the clock tower on the building's corner. A big part of the success of modernism, I think pretty clearly, is in the inexpensiveness of its simplicity.

mojiferous · #**751** Posted **Jun 20, 2017, 2:40 PM**

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I don't think they're "moving into" it. I think they're solidly in it, and have been for years. That's why we're getting a generation of glass curtain walls.

If anything I actually think we're maybe on the downslope of neo-modernism, and beginning to see inklings of being ready to move on to something else.

If anything we're probably seeing the last years where all architecture is human-generated - With industrial-scale 3D printing, iterative design, and style-trained neural networks I would imagine that most non-monumental architecture will be computer assisted within a couple of decades.

Imagine the forms that something like this would create: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3029756/why-algorithms-are-the-next-star-designers

Or if you could train a neural network using architectural styles kind of like https://deepart.io

And hopefully paired with cheaper ornamentation because of industrial 3D printing and you have the formula for some amazing stuff, and a real change in aesthetics after a couple generations of cost-focused boringness.

But beyond that - does anyone know what is happening at 18th & Humboldt? The parking lot on the south side of 18th (across the street from the St. Joseph demolition) is fenced off...

And has anyone seen renderings of the apartments being built at Colfax and Federal where the old strip mall was? Or whatever is across Colfax (at Irving)? It would be nice if that area could become a more welcoming gateway to West Colfax...

wong21fr · #**752** Posted **Jun 20, 2017, 6:58 PM**

Tower crane going up at 20th & Chestnut.

20th&Chestnut by Wong21fr, on Flickr

RyanD · #**753** Posted **Jun 21, 2017, 8:15 PM**

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Tower crane going up at 20th & Chestnut.

It sure is!

http://denverinfill.com/blog/2017/06/hilton-garden-inn-union-station-update-2.html

Cirrus · #**754** Posted **Jun 21, 2017, 9:38 PM**

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If anything we're probably seeing the last years where all architecture is human-generated - With industrial-scale 3D printing, iterative design, and style-trained neural networks I would imagine that most non-monumental architecture will be computer assisted within a couple of decades.

Imagine the forms that something like this would create: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3029756/why-algorithms-are-the-next-star-designers

Interesting thought. I suspect we'll see a growing rift between artistic architecture and functional architecture.

I hope we can do better than that chair, though. Apparently the perfect chair is an uncomfortable stool? What a bad proof of concept.

wong21fr · #**755** Posted **Jun 21, 2017, 10:41 PM**

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It sure is!

Also noticed that TriVista on Speer also has a tower crane up as well. Probably has been up for a bit, but it's hard to notice amidst all of the other cranes.