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Old Posted May 10, 2007, 4:42 AM
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DENVER | The Spire | 478 FT / 145 M | 41 FLOORS

The Spire 41 stories 525 feet Denver,Co


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Old Posted May 10, 2007, 4:53 AM
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Looks like a novare building...a lot like the one u/c in austin right now.
     
     
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Old Posted May 10, 2007, 12:24 PM
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Yea and there is one just like it finished in Atlanta too… Its so sad architecture has all left the US to Europe and the Middle East.
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OMG novare is putting its stink on denver too? jeeze is nothing sacred in this country? If they tried to pull this shit in Manhattan, they'd have another thing coming.
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Old Posted May 14, 2007, 12:16 PM
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Well the project is by Nichols Partnership and the architect is RNL Design
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I really like the one in atlanta and i think this one has potential to be something cool too. But they really do look alot alike

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Yea and there is one just like it finished in Atlanta too… Its so sad architecture has all left the US to Europe and the Middle East.
Right, as if they never build plain or derivative buildings in Europe and the Middle East
     
     
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Right, as if they never build plain or derivative buildings in Europe and the Middle East
ESPECIALLY residential buildings where you often see mutliples of the same building side by side.
     
     
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Old Posted May 14, 2007, 6:36 PM
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Vom.

AIA needs to stop licensing soul-selling firms that willingly design poo like this for firms like Novare over and over. A damn shame.
     
     
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Old Posted May 14, 2007, 6:41 PM
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Nice highrise infill that will add density to Denver core.
     
     
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Old Posted May 14, 2007, 6:45 PM
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Thanks, that's it's main purpose, infill. Sweet, glorious infill.
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Thanks, that's it's main purpose, infill. Sweet, glorious infill.
And will add density to the city where more than just the wealthy can afford a home.
     
     
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Old Posted May 15, 2007, 11:04 PM
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Right, as if they never build plain or derivative buildings in Europe and the Middle East
Yea but those are low rises not high rises...It looks weird when two cities both have identical 40 story towers vs a block of identical town homes...
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Old Posted May 17, 2007, 9:36 AM
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Spire breaks ground

By John Rebchook, Rocky Mountain News
May 15, 2007
Denver developer Randy Nichols today broke ground on the $175 million, 41-story Spire, the first new residential high-rise built in the central business district in the past 24 years.

The Spire will be the tallest residential tower between Chicago and Las Vegas, said Nichols, principal of the Nichols Partnership.

The Spire will open in 26 months at 891 14th St., across from the Colorado Convention Center.

The building will stand 483-feet tall and will include 503 condos and 714 bedrooms.

Since Nichols first announced the project two years, hard construction costs have risen by 50 percent.

"We don't have to raise our prices by 50 percent, because not all of our costs have risen that much," he said after a press conference at the site, where Mayor John Hickenlooper and Tami Door, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership spoke.

However, the average price of a unit has risen to $420 per square foot from $390 per square foot, he said.

Initially, he hoped to have market-rate units starting at about $175,000, but now they will start around $200,000, he said.

Units will range in size from about 700 square feet to 1,600 square feet.

Unlike the other high-rises moving forward or on the drawing board, the Spire is aimed at young professionals working downtown, he said.

Most of the other residential buildings have been aimed at empty nesters, because younger people can't afford them, he said.

That is the main reason that the Spire is being constructed with no pre-leasing, Nichols said.

He said their core market is the 25 to 35-year-old, and most people in that age group aren't going to make a decision on where they're going to live 2 ½ years from now.

Pre-sales won't begin until about a year before completion, he said. With no advertising, Nichols said that about 350 people already have informally registered at their Web page, spiredenver.com.

Developer George Thorn, who is co-developing the much more expensive Museum Residences in the Golden Triangle, said constructing the building with no pre-sales is interesting.

"But it was very successful at the Glass House," which was developed by East West Partners in their River Front Park community in the Central Platte Valley, Thorn noted.

"And this is a very significant building," Thorn said about the Spire.

The Spire also will be a "green" or environmentally friendly building.

It will have a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED designation.

"This is a fairly recent decision," said Rich von Luhrte, principal of the RNL Design, the Spire's architect.

"Just about everything we do now is green," von Luhrte said. He noted that the project already will get a number of LEED points because it is an urban development across from a light rail stop.

He said that it probably will not cost any premium for a basic LEED designation, and "by pushing things a little" it may qualify for a silver or gold LEED designation.

The building also will include 602 covered parking space, a 24/7 concierge services, a two-level area with a health club, media room, pool side club, billiards room, and a landscaped outdoor terrace with grilling areas, fire pit, outdoor pools and hot tubs. The units will have 10-foot ceilings with floor to ceiling glass.

Hickenlooper said that many more people living downtown will help make downtown safer.

Door, of the partnership, said "there is no time like the present, to build a spectacular" building like the Spire.
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seems like denver ,atl and austin will have the same kind of building...its fine...we all share similar characteristics in buildings....jus like denvers grand hyatt looks like the one being built in san antonio
     
     
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Everything is starting to look like this ^^^, good Lord!
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Old Posted May 18, 2007, 8:36 PM
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Seems fine but a bit to wide for me.
     
     
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Old Posted May 25, 2007, 7:49 PM
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Old Posted May 25, 2007, 10:16 PM
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Wow....they didn't even try to pretend like this wasn't a rip-off of Spire in Atlanta. Same basic concept, same glass, same central illuminated part, same vertical painted concrete, same bulky concrete back, heck - even the same name. The base is cooler than the building in Atlanta, but other than that this is basically architectural plagiarism.
     
     
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