We interrupt our Top 10 countdown for the following news flash: Buzz Geller’s Bell Tower is making a comeback!

John Rebchook has the scoop in today’s Rocky Mountain News. Here’s the article in PDF format. The tower has been thinned by 18% in response to the city’s and the Lower Downtown Design Review Board’s comments that the previous design wasn’t skinny enough.

Mr. Geller’s decision to put the tower on a diet and resubmit it was influenced, in part, by the positive and encouraging comments he received here at DenverInfill, particularly on this post which generated over 60 comments, including one from Mr. Geller himself. Good job everyone!

Getting the tower built will still be a challenge but, with a little luck, it will happen and become a new icon on the Denver skyline. I’ll be editing this post to add some high-resolution renderings of the tower’s new design later today.

AFTERNOON EDIT:
Here are two high-resolution images (courtesy of Fentress Architects and Buzz Geller, by way of John Rebchook) of Geller’s proposed 34-story tower in Downtown Denver. The image on the left compares the “before” and “after,” and the image on the right is the new narrower tower with the proposed low-rise office building and park across the creek.