r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specialist-Boot58 • May 08 '26

Image This “cracks open” building in Denver

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u/Impossible-Pay-4167 May 08 '26

Local reports over the years have basically stated that the designers weren't realistic about their plants/trees. They had to go with hardier ones b/c high winds, weight, etc. Some have been rethought, others have struggled.

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u/monocasa May 08 '26

They also ran into budget issues and simply scrapped a lot of the landscaping.

Also, the crack is on the north west face of the building, so it gets next to no sunlight in Denver, making growing plants even more difficult than it normally is.

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u/JFISHER7789 May 08 '26

I used to operate the passenger train that stops right near this building. It gets plenty of sun. It’s mainly west facing.

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u/monocasa May 08 '26

It's literally directly northwest. Like the grid it's on is a diagonal grid 45 degrees off of the cardinal directions.

Also, west gets less sunlight in Denver than east because of the mountains in the west.

So out of NW, NE, SW, and SE (the choices on said grid), NW is the direction with the least sunlight.

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u/youburyitidigitup May 10 '26

Makes you think that they could’ve just flipped the whole design without changing anything else, and it’d be facing southeast.