Staying in Cherry Creek, let’s head over to East 2nd Avenue and Saint Paul to check in on 255 Saint Paul, an 84-unit apartment building that will provide an outstanding 42,000 square feet of ground floor retail.
Both sections of the building have topped out with the brick facade starting to show. Because of the zoning, the building is seven-stories towards 2nd Avenue and steps down to four-stories towards 3rd Avenue. This gives the project some great setbacks that allow for large terraces. Below are two photos of the taller section.
The step-down in height gives us a much more interesting project than a half-block long, seven-story building. Here are three more pictures of 255 Saint Paul from East 3rd Avenue.
As its neighbor, 210 Saint Paul, is close to finishing, 255 Saint Paul is not far behind with anticipated completion in November.
The step down is to two stories on 3rd Ave. not four as mentioned in the above post. The pictures show this as well.
The architecture is banal and predictable rather than restrained as one commentator previously mentioned; 50 shades of tan? Enough already with the formulaic architecture throughout this city. Yawn.
I think the step down design works really well for transition areas like this. As long as the setbacks are well divided, the step down doesn’t even need to be too gradual to have a cool effect.
Cherry Creek area is really building up, love to see the progress of this project
Very handsome addition to the neighborhood. By the way, I’ve decided i like black/brown window frames on modern buildings. White ones stick out and look too plastic. Plus the dirt really shows!