Today we wrap up coverage of the Industry Denver Apartments, now known as Edison at RiNo, a 277-home residential project adjacent to Industry Denver, an office/restaurant adaptive reuse redevelopment of a former wholesale produce warehouse. For our previous posts on the Industry Denver Apartments, click here.
The seven-story building features a lot of blond brick to match the historic Industry warehouse next door. Let’s start with the view of the building’s main entry at the corner of Brighton Boulevard and the private drive (what would be 30th Street if it went through) that separates the apartments from their Industry office neighbor.
Most of the building fronts the newly rebuilt Brighton Boulevard. Construction has wrapped up on the street’s new cycle tracks and sidewalks, with landscape still being installed:
These last two images are of the building’s northern end:
This project (which replaced a surface parking lot!) is a nice complement to the Industry office building next door and for providing much-needed housing for Denver’s booming population.
Good looking.
Awesome
Great contrast between light brick and black
Design is GREAT!!!
Denver needs to use more artitectural firms like this
This building looks nice. I drive down Brighton Blvd a lot and it seems like there are more interesting and modern building designs along this stretch then elsewhere in the city. Is this because the light rail from the airport runs through here and it’s highly visible to visitors?
This is one of the highest quality new residential developments in town from what I’ve seen (and I drive by it everyday). It’s really a nice looking building and compliments Industry well. We need more of these.
A pretty decent looking building, but I am extremely frustrated that it is not contributing to a retail corridor. This building at least looks like it could be retrofitted to include retail with the high first floor ceiling, but all of these buildings that lack retail space are hurting the retail that does exist and guaranteeing that retail will never exist into the future. We really should require more on these important corridors.
This is my favorite new apartment building in this development cycle, and it’s not even close. The massing is great. It fits in nicely with the low-rise Industry building next door, but still offers more height than the four-story Dallas donuts everywhere else. The design is impeccable. It matches the building next door in materials and style, but offers its own interpretation of both. And the way the design maximizes the shape of the site is a great example of a constraint informing better design. Kudos to the developer and huge credit to the Industry team for partnering with a multi-family developer whose vision was equal to the opportunity this site presented.
i rarely say this about some of the more drab buildings they’ve been putting in denver but i love the aesthetic and color of this building.
The developer and the architects took a risk on the aesthetics of this building and they pulled it off. It works because it’s cleanly detailed and has a simple palate of shapes, textures and colors. I was worried that it would come off as top heavy, but in real life it actually does something to make this street more interesting. Am glad to see this one. Great job!
What I like is that the building is finished in brick on all sides. If you go to the back (facing the Platte) the building is not cheap stucco, it is the same brick as used for the front of the building. It looks great from all sides.
I find the raving for this building interesting. I’m a little bit more conflicted than others I guess.
On one hand I appreciate the clean, simple material palette, and it is nicely detailed.
On the other, something about the massing – particularly the parasites at the top floor – feels odd. Jim mentioned ‘top heavy’ and that seems apt.
I also wish they would have detailed it in a way the podium was less prominent.
Overall though I like it, and it’s far superior to some others in town (I’m looking at you Via).
I think the raving comes from the fact that most of the other new residential development is pretty crappy. This one used quality materials and not trendy gimmicks that will date quickly.
This is such a great design and use of materials. Agree with other comment that this is by far the best residential development in recent years.
The use of brick–from top to bottom, with addition of sleek dark accent materials throughout gives it a sophisticated look. The tan brick tips a hat not just to the building next door, but with a lot of Denver mid-century buildings. This development almost looks like a high-level re-do of a 1950s apartment block.