We have an exciting week here on DenverInfill! A lot of new projects are now under construction giving Downtown Denver a whole new wave of infill. Let’s kick off the week with the 16th and Wewatta Hotel / Office Complex.
Announced just over a year ago, Denver Union Station is getting a 12-story, 200-room, Kimpton Hotel and a 53,000 five-story office building right at the tip of the commuter rail platform. As a refresher, here are a couple of renderings from our announcement post.
This project will fill in the last portion of Block A; with The Platform taking the other portion. Here is a fun little comparison photo from January 2013 to present day. At one point, the 16th & Wewatta Hotel/Office Complex project site was in clear view from this vantage point. It is quite the amazing sight to see what has been accomplished in just over two years.
Heading down to the street level, you can clearly see that caisson drills have been moved on site along with an official construction fence wrapped all the way around.
The empty lots around Denver Union Station are filling up quick and we couldn’t be happier with the full buildout of Block A.
The office building looks like it could be the girl sibling to the boy next door. Ha!
Amazing changes.
Are those the latest renderings? I had heard they had to rework their lobby and drop off area due to some issues with the adjacent building, which caused the year-long delay in getting started. Curious how or if that affected the overall design.
An important development for the entire neighborhood! Just need more condos!
This project is perfect for this spot. Glad to see these finally getting underway!
And I, for one, am thrilled to see the lack of a glass curtain wall on either of these. I especially like design of The Kimpton. It’s nice that it will be all dark brick and lots of it. Seems there’s only one other proposal in Union Station using a darker color. Not ever sure about the oddly sized staggered windows until the building’s done, but…it usually works better than I think it will. Hoping for the same here. : )
Overall, very pleasing and fitting designs on both of these buildings.
I certainly hope the mish-mash of windows looks better in real life than in the renderings. I was not a big fan of the design when the renderings were first posted, and I can’t say its grown on me. The windows just strike me as a very gimmicky design that will look dated very quickly
The hotel exterior is a concern. It reminds me of the 50’s and 60’s style of all-brick apartment houses that are just rectangular brick boxes without any interesting features or style, and consequently are now considered very ugly buildings. I don’t see much different in this rendering. How will we perceive this building in 30 years? Can’t they break up these facades and make them more interesting? Is this really considered appealing and enduring design?
The exterior has an interesting irregular arrangement of windows.
Not a huge fan of the hotel exterior, reminds me of a modern attempt of the Sheridan, which to me looks horribly outdated with the multitude of small rectangular windows. I do like the office building and the stark contrast in brick between the two buildings is pretty cool.
I am a big fan of the hotel exterior, which looks modern and sleek!