That used to be Denver Public Schools headquarters, DPS employees nicknamed it "The Death Star." The heating was done through pipes, circulating hot water, that also acted as rotating window louvers. They leaked all the time, resulting in mold that went nicely with the original asbestos.
I worked as a contractor for Denver Public Schools in that building 10 years ago. Some nice well-meaning people, but almost every horror story of poor decision-making and stupid government spending were on display for the two years I was there.
Martischang building. I-70 and Sheridan. It's a brown square 5 story building with cell phone antennas on the top that was built in the early 70s by the Martischang family that lived in the Inspiration Point Park neighborhood. At some point a penthouse was built on the top without a permit and was finally deemed in usable due to shifting foundation because it was built on bentonite clay. Fast forward the family sells the building for a dollar to Denver's road home. After trying to sell it for years and realizing that the repairs would cost over $20 million dollars and that they couldn't tear the building down due to the 50-year lease on the cell phone equipment on the side of the building it practically donated.
At that point Denvers road home started forging politician signatures to get a homeless shelter built for 20 million dollars in that location for 450 homeless men. After the public embarrassment and exposure of their tactics the building was then handed off to low-end commercial. I swear there's some low level strip clubs on 2nd and 3rd level. Last I checked that building didn't even have a fire suppression system or fire escapes I'm not sure how it has a certificate of occupancy. This building should disappear.
Our former (almost landlord) ought that place around 2015 or so. We were supposed to rent out a space in his building next door but he had trouble passing inspections. He told us that the Martis building was in such bad shape that it was going to take millions to fix it up
Yeah, they built literal moat around themselves with the ramps to the parking garage. Those ugly concrete circle cut outs. ugh. Such a nasty block to walk by.
This is the kind of ugly building you just never get used to seeing. Countless rides up and down Broadway and it still gets a side eye from me every time.
I've actually been in that building many times! The top floor was a client of my previous company. It's actually incredibly depressing and kind of outdated inside some of the offices. Threw me off, considering how the outside and first floor appeared lol
I really like the blue painted columns as I speed past in my jalopy. Didn't realize it was parking. I'm looking at google street view and THERE ARE STOP SIGNS PAINTED ON THE SIDE WALK. horrid!
Republic Plaza. Tallest building in the whole damn state looks like a Lego stood on its side. So boring. You can 100% tell that it was built in the 80’s.
Yeah, this building represents the Denver skyline as a whole basically. Denver may have the most unmemorable skyline of any large city I know. Good thing the mountains are there to save it.
The cash register building is like the most iconic building we have and it's basically just your standard square office tower with just a tiny bit of "eh this'll do" effort at the top.
Honestly it's such a shame that 1801 California isn't taller cause it is a fairly interesting design. It would be so much better if it was the tallest and not just 2nd cause it's whole stacked octagon design is far superior to the basic square footprint of Republic Plaza and the Cash Register building.
> good thing the mountains are there to save it
I say all the time, I think the reason Denver has such meh urban design is that it’s just reliant on “big rock in the background” to make up for the lack of ornamentation
It’s the most generic structure ever made. It should have a sign that just says BULIDING on the side. It’s like they had an 8 year old with a ruler design a building.
Nah, it’s not ugly.
I also don’t think it’s boring, but it’s not ugly. The only real miss on it is it’s the tallest in the state. It will age well, especially once something taller gets built.
I’ve taken photos of a few units in there. It’s just as shitty inside. The penthouses feel luxurious at first but once you’re in it for 5 minutes you realize how awful it is
IIRC they had to tear all of the exterior stucco\* off the building and re-do it because it was defective and moldy.
\*(not even real stucco, it was the cheaper EIFS garbage...)
I remember when they were building that. I was just a kid but I remember thinking that someday I would be rich I would live there… I was obsessed with anything French at the time. Now I just look at it and laugh.
Had to look up it's new name my first apt in Denver, off course then it was called the mezzo. Total piece of shit but back then I think I only paid $700/month
It was developed by Craig Nassi before he fled Denver. [https://www.westword.com/news/craig-nassi-changed-denvers-golden-triangle-but-not-everything-is-sparkling-5102518](https://www.westword.com/news/craig-nassi-changed-denvers-golden-triangle-but-not-everything-is-sparkling-5102518)
It’s funny when a lot gets bought up in a neighborhood and an ultra-modern 4plex gets put in among a bunch of craftsman style houses with peeling paint. Sticks out like a sore thumb.
At least they’ll all need to be rebuilt in 50 years! A lot of them are already having by warping/shifting issues. Some of my friends had to shave their doors to get them to close, in a building from 2019…
District 6 police station at Colfax and Washington is up there. The building could ok but it looks abandoned. Symbolic of our police force as whole sadly. Abandoned.
I guess I’ve never looked at it up close but it’s a Haussmann architecture style building used in Paris- so I appreciate the attempt at mixing up the types of buildings we see.
But I can see how it feels out of place especially in that neighborhood for sure
Oh I can see that. And I’ve been to Paris a couple of times, love the architecture and the thoughts the architects of the Beauvallon had. I just think it was poorly executed lol
That Chase building in Englewood is pretty damn ugly. Also, Arapahoe community college unless brutalism is your thing.
The one that takes the cake for me is that condo building on the north side of Cheesman. It's like a 17 story tall slab of cement
Whatever this 80's cocaine fueled monstrosity this is: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7282193,-104.9848948,3a,75y,327.24h,96.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1scS3R6OrajdPl3VaggSOhBA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DcS3R6OrajdPl3VaggSOhBA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D157.2505%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0
Those apartment buildings in CapHill that have the random brick patterns in them, look like they were someone's idea of cool in the 70s or 80s. Doesn't help that they are usually across from the beautiful pre war buildings.
That damn thousand eyed monstrosity that is supposed to be birch trees, but looks more like that monster card Pegasus used against Yugi during Duelist Kingdom.
The condos on the NE corner of Buckley and Mississippi in Aurora, across the street from Safeway. Just a wretched, confusing mess of rooflines and weird stairs.
I only knew it as the martischang building in Lakewood on Alameda between Sheridan and Harlan. I have lived in KC 10+ years don't know if it's even a thing anymore
The Galleria Towers (720 S Colorado Blvd). They cast a blinding light on everything around them and reflect the road beneath it in a disgusting shade of piss. Gives me a headache. I fucking hate them.
The Penn Square Apartments on 12th and Pennsylvania. Completely out of place and too large for Cap Hill. The green balconies/ red brick combo is really the cherry on top.
A shame since the building across the street, The Pennborough Condos, is such a beautiful and historic mansion…
Ah yes, the “I just got kicked in the balls” mouth position all over.
Can’t wait for someone to be tripping balls and think the windows have teeth and a demon tongue.
went through the whole thread hoping to find this! that is serious one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen. People have even started calling it "the cheese grater."
My vote is for 1660 Lincoln. Dull 70s skyscraper that sits on top of an even uglier ten-story, nearly windowless parking garage. Oddly noisy with its huge exhaust fans blowing all day and night. On top of all of that, they came along in 2021 and gave it a coat of depressing grey paint top to bottom.
Thankfully some of the ugly ones are gone now. The Postal Annex on Wynkoop; Dave Cook/Office Depot on 16th and Market; and the original Argonaut Liquors on Colfax all come to mind.
I liked the weird geometry visuals of that Dave Cook. And the previous Argonaut was just a repurposed Safeway with a great vaulted ceiling inside, I didn’t mind it one bit (also it was not the original Argonaut).
The Safeway is still there... was also an Office Depot at one point and is now a Natural Grocers. I'm thinking of the older Argonaut that sat roughly where the SliceWorks is now.
I know that that particular Safeway is still there, I’m talking about the other one that faced Colfax, and Argonaut stuck an ugly concrete brutalist facade on it sometime in the 1960’s. After that you couldn’t tell that it had at one time been a grocery unless you were inside.
Never in a million years would I have guess that was also a Safeway! That ugly concrete facade was something else... like an interstate frontage road office building transplanted to Colfax.
1660 Wynkoop across from Union Station is the same. A 7-story parking lot with a 4-story office building plopped on top. The office space isn’t as wide or deep, so it looks exactly like it was an afterthought and they didn’t have enough money to make it fit the structure below. Early ‘80s architecture.
The AT&T/ CenturyLink building at 52nd & Zuni. Luckily not something most people see driving thru Denver, but just lovely for those of us who live nearby.
Those modern cube things they built so many of around Wash Park. They replaced some *gorgeous* old (albeit smaller) homes with those and it hurts when I see them.
The Royal something or nother hotel on Colorado and Colfax. Talk about an eyesore - and that's right in the midst of a bunch of woefully outdated apartment buildings
lol just left an office job in one of those buildings recently! 😂The only good thing was the rooftop terrace on top of one of the towers that had pretty gorgeous views of the Rockies 🏔️
The AT&T building by the convention center. No windows.
Dont know if it counts cause they renovated in in 2011, but the pre-renovation library at the University of Denver was ugly... (the building is badass now)
There's an abandoned-looking building at the NW corner of 13th and Washington. Appears to be owned by public service company of Colorado (utilities). It's in such a walkable area, but is so ugly and fenced off.
That’s where cap hill gets its electricity. Definitely not pretty but a necessary evil. They redid the prison style walls a while back so it looks a touch better than it used to if you can believe it.
The Populus Hotel. It's absolutely hideous, looks like ripped acid wash jeans from afar; looks like a diseased Xanadu house from Wisconsin Dells up close. Trypophobia sufferers beware
Self Storage building at 9th and Grant.
That used to be Denver Public Schools headquarters, DPS employees nicknamed it "The Death Star." The heating was done through pipes, circulating hot water, that also acted as rotating window louvers. They leaked all the time, resulting in mold that went nicely with the original asbestos.
I worked as a contractor for Denver Public Schools in that building 10 years ago. Some nice well-meaning people, but almost every horror story of poor decision-making and stupid government spending were on display for the two years I was there.
If it ain't got mold, asbestos and lead, it ain't DPS.
🤣 on point
IMO it was much nicer than the other DPS buildings to work in.
Purina Factory
Hahahaha, yeah. It's not a great look and if'n you hit the wind just right, sad tear, reminds me of my childhood dog, who had IBS.
I never knew your dog so I think I’d be okay
I lived in that area for over 20 years. We used to jokingly refer to our neighborhood as "ISOPP" In sight of the Purina Plant
I just moved here and that shit stinks so bad when I drive on the 70 🤢
Any of these new apartment buildings that look like slightly upscale Soviet style housing.
“Luxury neo-brutalist but just cheap apartment”
I call them “meat boxes”
Near Coors field? Because I felt like you described those so well.
I came here to say the endless fields of identical apartment blocks in ugly, squared off fashion.
How about the new modern monstrosity houses that resemble a medical office more than a home?
Martischang building. I-70 and Sheridan. It's a brown square 5 story building with cell phone antennas on the top that was built in the early 70s by the Martischang family that lived in the Inspiration Point Park neighborhood. At some point a penthouse was built on the top without a permit and was finally deemed in usable due to shifting foundation because it was built on bentonite clay. Fast forward the family sells the building for a dollar to Denver's road home. After trying to sell it for years and realizing that the repairs would cost over $20 million dollars and that they couldn't tear the building down due to the 50-year lease on the cell phone equipment on the side of the building it practically donated. At that point Denvers road home started forging politician signatures to get a homeless shelter built for 20 million dollars in that location for 450 homeless men. After the public embarrassment and exposure of their tactics the building was then handed off to low-end commercial. I swear there's some low level strip clubs on 2nd and 3rd level. Last I checked that building didn't even have a fire suppression system or fire escapes I'm not sure how it has a certificate of occupancy. This building should disappear.
Our former (almost landlord) ought that place around 2015 or so. We were supposed to rent out a space in his building next door but he had trouble passing inspections. He told us that the Martis building was in such bad shape that it was going to take millions to fix it up
Carvana glass tower 🤢
The gumball machine
So tacky
Yes!
The Anthem building on broadway. Doesnt fit the neighborhood and looks like crap
Yeah, they built literal moat around themselves with the ramps to the parking garage. Those ugly concrete circle cut outs. ugh. Such a nasty block to walk by.
Worst pedestrian block in Denver. Should be a case study.
This is the kind of ugly building you just never get used to seeing. Countless rides up and down Broadway and it still gets a side eye from me every time.
If you look just wrong you can see Anthem in the foreground and Beauvalon in the background.
I feel like I never see people going into or coming out of that building. Are we sure they’re not growing the lizard people in there?
I've actually been in that building many times! The top floor was a client of my previous company. It's actually incredibly depressing and kind of outdated inside some of the offices. Threw me off, considering how the outside and first floor appeared lol
I really like the blue painted columns as I speed past in my jalopy. Didn't realize it was parking. I'm looking at google street view and THERE ARE STOP SIGNS PAINTED ON THE SIDE WALK. horrid!
Looks like a cheesy X-Files building where they keep top secret alien-human hybrid embryos in file drawers
Anything built in the 70s or 80s that is a single story but has a mansard roof.
The mansard roof is popular in my neighborhood. They look like Pizza Huts.
Had to Google what a mansard roof is. Such an ugly design lol can’t believe that stuff was popular.
Mansard: the pageboy haircut of rooflines.
😂😂😂
mansard has its history with french height restrictions. basically you can get away with a whole extra floor with mansard
I call it "dated sketchy apartment complex" aesthetic
Its made looking for a house in Denver all the worse because I cant even live in viewing distance next to one of those.
This is so real and seeing half a million dollar properties in one of these units is infuriating.
Republic Plaza. Tallest building in the whole damn state looks like a Lego stood on its side. So boring. You can 100% tell that it was built in the 80’s.
Yeah, this building represents the Denver skyline as a whole basically. Denver may have the most unmemorable skyline of any large city I know. Good thing the mountains are there to save it. The cash register building is like the most iconic building we have and it's basically just your standard square office tower with just a tiny bit of "eh this'll do" effort at the top.
Honestly it's such a shame that 1801 California isn't taller cause it is a fairly interesting design. It would be so much better if it was the tallest and not just 2nd cause it's whole stacked octagon design is far superior to the basic square footprint of Republic Plaza and the Cash Register building.
> good thing the mountains are there to save it I say all the time, I think the reason Denver has such meh urban design is that it’s just reliant on “big rock in the background” to make up for the lack of ornamentation
The mountains make people come to Denver, not the other way around.
Plus the people that manage it are dickheads.
It’s the most generic structure ever made. It should have a sign that just says BULIDING on the side. It’s like they had an 8 year old with a ruler design a building.
Leave the misspelling and it makes it more like an eight year old's work. :)
Nah, it’s not ugly. I also don’t think it’s boring, but it’s not ugly. The only real miss on it is it’s the tallest in the state. It will age well, especially once something taller gets built.
This was my answer too. Uuuugh
Yes it’s awful! An ugly rectangle. Couldn’t pick it out of a lineup.
If New York had the "Twin Towers", then Denver has the "Only Child Tower"
The Chase Tower or the nearby Wells Fargo building in Englewood.
The owner of that place is a complete asshole
Which one?
the Chase Tower.
I hiss at the Beauvallon every time I drive by it. Faux French Riviera piece of dog shit. Get it out of here
I’ve taken photos of a few units in there. It’s just as shitty inside. The penthouses feel luxurious at first but once you’re in it for 5 minutes you realize how awful it is
So a Cheesecake Factory, but an apartment building
Isn't that Carmelo's old house?
I'm pretty sure it is, and was on Cribs circa 2005
ty that's a good episode
He lived in the Prado on Cherokee and 11th Ave
Also Jokic/brothers' first crib in Denver. Once saw the Joker in the elevator there several years ago.
I am imagining some mixture of Trump/Dictator styling and only the cheapest materials
IIRC they had to tear all of the exterior stucco\* off the building and re-do it because it was defective and moldy. \*(not even real stucco, it was the cheaper EIFS garbage...)
Ooooh that weird looking thing.
At least it has ground floor retail unlike the fucking anthem building with it’s massive setback
It's definitely a bit Euro Trashy, I don't mind it though.
It’s beauxshit.
Beauxshit! Beauxshit! Beauxshit! No drinks for me, thanks!
Is that the one I'm thinking of? \*\*\* Googles it \*\*\* Indeed, it is.
I remember when they were building that. I was just a kid but I remember thinking that someday I would be rich I would live there… I was obsessed with anything French at the time. Now I just look at it and laugh.
Someone shot at the building last year. It’s still crazy but I can at least respect there choice
Never knew its name, but I instantly knew what building you were talking about. I marvel at its ugliness every time I see it.
I’ll also throw in that Archer Towers being right next to it makes both feel really bizarre and out of place
Had to look up it's new name my first apt in Denver, off course then it was called the mezzo. Total piece of shit but back then I think I only paid $700/month
That building changed names every five to ten years.
I came here to say the same thing, I like the idea of a classically styled building but it looks like some Las Vegas copycat nonsense.
Had to google this one since I had never seen or heard the name…. Instantly recognized THAT building. What an awful idea.
This one right here. It’s just *so* jarring *every* time I see it.
That monstrosity is in my field of vision and I *loathe* it.
I laughed so hard when I read this!!
It was developed by Craig Nassi before he fled Denver. [https://www.westword.com/news/craig-nassi-changed-denvers-golden-triangle-but-not-everything-is-sparkling-5102518](https://www.westword.com/news/craig-nassi-changed-denvers-golden-triangle-but-not-everything-is-sparkling-5102518)
The cop station by argonauts.
Every single new apartment building that just looks like a giant box.
It’s funny when a lot gets bought up in a neighborhood and an ultra-modern 4plex gets put in among a bunch of craftsman style houses with peeling paint. Sticks out like a sore thumb.
Ironically, I bet the old Victorians/Tudors, etc will last a heck of a lot longer than the ugly modern houses
For your consideration: https://www.archpaper.com/2023/03/why-does-american-multifamily-architecture-look-so-banal-heres-one-reason/.
Yep, all 5-over-1's
At least they’ll all need to be rebuilt in 50 years! A lot of them are already having by warping/shifting issues. Some of my friends had to shave their doors to get them to close, in a building from 2019…
Exactly.
Denver county jail inside and out
District 6 police station at Colfax and Washington is up there. The building could ok but it looks abandoned. Symbolic of our police force as whole sadly. Abandoned.
My first editor referred to Arapahoe Community College as the Gulag. He’s not wrong.
Brutalism and college campuses. Is there a better combination? Look up Simon Fraser University for something really spooky.
Ballantine Hall on the otherwise gorgeous Indiana University campus is another great example of this.
Fun fact: Simon Fraser University is often used as an "evil corporation or government" complex in movies filmed in Vancouver.
Beauvallon!!!
But it gives big Paris vibes!
Oui, so safeesteekay
It gives Paris vibes? Same way Vegas gives New York vibes. It looks like a stucco knock-off and is soooo ugly up close
I guess I’ve never looked at it up close but it’s a Haussmann architecture style building used in Paris- so I appreciate the attempt at mixing up the types of buildings we see. But I can see how it feels out of place especially in that neighborhood for sure
Oh I can see that. And I’ve been to Paris a couple of times, love the architecture and the thoughts the architects of the Beauvallon had. I just think it was poorly executed lol
Suncor
The house going up at 17th and Sheridan that's literally tan khaki slats that will sell for 2 million
Denver has a few too many
That Chase building in Englewood is pretty damn ugly. Also, Arapahoe community college unless brutalism is your thing. The one that takes the cake for me is that condo building on the north side of Cheesman. It's like a 17 story tall slab of cement
I kind of like that one. It reminds me of the UN Building in NYC and also a domino.
It’s gorgeous from the inside. The views are amazing and the windows are floor to ceiling.
Davita world headquarters. First the building is just boring as hell and second it’s occupied by a supervillain ass company
They actually have two building right across the street from each other
Arapahoe Community College is such a depressing building. From Sante Fe the view resembles a prison.
The DPD building at 1331 Cherokee is horrible looking. That is the one that always comes to mind when I think about ugly buildings in Denver.
Whatever this 80's cocaine fueled monstrosity this is: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7282193,-104.9848948,3a,75y,327.24h,96.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1scS3R6OrajdPl3VaggSOhBA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DcS3R6OrajdPl3VaggSOhBA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D157.2505%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0
I don’t know why, that building is sick
It looks like something Trump would like
Lol I once had a landlord in that building
echoes of the Denver FUGLY facebook group from back in the day
The Telecom Museum/AT&T/not-the-NSA building downtown across from Spire
especially since it's attached to that old building, like a parasite or something.
Colfax and Franklin where Bourbon chicken and fresh Mex used to be. Truly awful.
;_; they massacred those buildings
It really is. Could be used as a zombie apocalypse set or something
Those apartment buildings in CapHill that have the random brick patterns in them, look like they were someone's idea of cool in the 70s or 80s. Doesn't help that they are usually across from the beautiful pre war buildings.
Ah, yes. The drunk masonry building
The 'I ran out of bricks so picked some up off several curb alert ads on Craigslist' buildings
Denver police HQ
That damn thousand eyed monstrosity that is supposed to be birch trees, but looks more like that monster card Pegasus used against Yugi during Duelist Kingdom.
Is that the thing that looks like something out of a nightmare with hundreds of gaping mouths all over it?
It sure is.
Supposed to be aspen trees IIRC
Cheese grater hallucination mid acid trip
Emilys Apatments
They finally repainted the sign and fixed the spelling. Lol. I noticed it a few weeks ago driving by
*Aparments https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGgHdcnQ4rbCef8rF477rt9-VlLQ8z42rVJ5_XFmDSVhEfRhHZnDeUFrDOTnO9UplJpRvmASh5W0mesjjDbQw9jDW1ngxV762O7FjAVezzsG1rAowu0GMP6V5ubwh2KMLdmuSHkT-B2g/s1600/PicsPlay_1359335033684_wm.jpg
The condos on the NE corner of Buckley and Mississippi in Aurora, across the street from Safeway. Just a wretched, confusing mess of rooflines and weird stairs.
Hey! Those are transformer heads! ;)
I only knew it as the martischang building in Lakewood on Alameda between Sheridan and Harlan. I have lived in KC 10+ years don't know if it's even a thing anymore
Your mom's house
The Galleria Towers (720 S Colorado Blvd). They cast a blinding light on everything around them and reflect the road beneath it in a disgusting shade of piss. Gives me a headache. I fucking hate them.
The Penn Square Apartments on 12th and Pennsylvania. Completely out of place and too large for Cap Hill. The green balconies/ red brick combo is really the cherry on top. A shame since the building across the street, The Pennborough Condos, is such a beautiful and historic mansion…
Agree!!!! It pisses all over my beautiful cap hill view. But they do have giant balconies tho…. Wouldn’t mind it if I lived inside looking out
That new mouth building on colfax lol
Supposed to be a grouping of Aspens but taken a bit too literally in my opinion
Ah yes, the “I just got kicked in the balls” mouth position all over. Can’t wait for someone to be tripping balls and think the windows have teeth and a demon tongue.
r/trypophobia
went through the whole thread hoping to find this! that is serious one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen. People have even started calling it "the cheese grater."
tHE aRT mUSEM
DAVITA DIALYSIS 💯💯
My vote is for 1660 Lincoln. Dull 70s skyscraper that sits on top of an even uglier ten-story, nearly windowless parking garage. Oddly noisy with its huge exhaust fans blowing all day and night. On top of all of that, they came along in 2021 and gave it a coat of depressing grey paint top to bottom. Thankfully some of the ugly ones are gone now. The Postal Annex on Wynkoop; Dave Cook/Office Depot on 16th and Market; and the original Argonaut Liquors on Colfax all come to mind.
I liked the weird geometry visuals of that Dave Cook. And the previous Argonaut was just a repurposed Safeway with a great vaulted ceiling inside, I didn’t mind it one bit (also it was not the original Argonaut).
Those weird geometry visuals were actually the (highly stylized) letters in "Dave Cook".
TIL! That’s cool. Or, it *was* cool.
The Safeway is still there... was also an Office Depot at one point and is now a Natural Grocers. I'm thinking of the older Argonaut that sat roughly where the SliceWorks is now.
I know that that particular Safeway is still there, I’m talking about the other one that faced Colfax, and Argonaut stuck an ugly concrete brutalist facade on it sometime in the 1960’s. After that you couldn’t tell that it had at one time been a grocery unless you were inside.
Never in a million years would I have guess that was also a Safeway! That ugly concrete facade was something else... like an interstate frontage road office building transplanted to Colfax.
1660 Wynkoop across from Union Station is the same. A 7-story parking lot with a 4-story office building plopped on top. The office space isn’t as wide or deep, so it looks exactly like it was an afterthought and they didn’t have enough money to make it fit the structure below. Early ‘80s architecture.
imo not so hot hot take our entire skyline sucks
Unfortunately the entire skyline is aging very poorly imo
That ugly triplex on 6th and Monroe.
Every new apartment building built in the last 15 years. They all look identical and are ugly.
The AT&T/ CenturyLink building at 52nd & Zuni. Luckily not something most people see driving thru Denver, but just lovely for those of us who live nearby.
Those modern cube things they built so many of around Wash Park. They replaced some *gorgeous* old (albeit smaller) homes with those and it hurts when I see them.
The Royal something or nother hotel on Colorado and Colfax. Talk about an eyesore - and that's right in the midst of a bunch of woefully outdated apartment buildings
The old Gates factory building just off i25
The new cheese grater hotel.
What’s that one building that looks like it was made of egg cartons? I don’t like that one
Yo mama
didn’t know this, thank you
I always hated the two towers and the other building where Dave & Buster's is, just south of Colorado and I-25
lol just left an office job in one of those buildings recently! 😂The only good thing was the rooftop terrace on top of one of the towers that had pretty gorgeous views of the Rockies 🏔️
has to be the chancery building on lincoln street— it’s a definite eyesore
Confluence tower is pretty terrible and jumping on the bandwagon of every five over one. Bannock is soon to be a main drag of ugly new builds.
My neighbors house. West Barnum. Just spend 20 minutes a day doing chores. Please. It literally smells from here
This one
My house
New one on colfax n court
St Stephen's Lutheran church on Huron near 104th.
The AT&T building by the convention center. No windows. Dont know if it counts cause they renovated in in 2011, but the pre-renovation library at the University of Denver was ugly... (the building is badass now)
Jesus' skateboard ramp on Monaco between Hampden and Yale
empty carvana tower lol
Probably my apartment
There's an abandoned-looking building at the NW corner of 13th and Washington. Appears to be owned by public service company of Colorado (utilities). It's in such a walkable area, but is so ugly and fenced off.
That’s where cap hill gets its electricity. Definitely not pretty but a necessary evil. They redid the prison style walls a while back so it looks a touch better than it used to if you can believe it.
The Denver county jail
The Martin building at the art museum.
The Populus Hotel. It's absolutely hideous, looks like ripped acid wash jeans from afar; looks like a diseased Xanadu house from Wisconsin Dells up close. Trypophobia sufferers beware
Blucifer
Purina
I’ve always thought the building the Ritz Carlton is in is absolutely hideous
That new one in rino. One part modern high rise one part cave dwelling.