Bluestone | 78m | 18s | Amble Ventures | NORR

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Another new DP in, Bluestone Tower, appears to be 18 storeys. Architect is NORR, Developer is Amble Ventures, who I note are the same developers as Yellowstone and Redstone. Much like those, nothing special but I'm sort of digging those different balcony colours.
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It looks very... 1980s? And not in a good way. I guess it'll do. Hopefully it's affordable housing, that'll excuse the design.
 
UrbanWarrior said:
It looks very... 1980s? And not in a good way. I guess it'll do. Hopefully it's affordable housing, that'll excuse the design.
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You could put a 100ft mural of me getting punched in the face by my ex wife's new boyfriend on the front of the building and I'd still take it over a downtown parking lot.
 
Damn! Bluestone on 12th looks like ass. Like others have said, it's great to see a Beltline parking lot disappear but I really hope they take another pass at the aesthetics on this one.
 
John Wick said:
Damn! Bluestone on 12th looks like ass. Like others have said, it's great to see a Beltline parking lot disappear but I really hope they take another pass at the aesthetics on this one.
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It's just been submitted so hopefully there's an opportunity for the file manager and Urban Design Review Panel to coax them into some aesthetic improvements.

Agree that it's not exactly a looker, but I still think it's a huge win to replace surface parking with a couple hundred or so residents (it's 195 units). That said, it's a far cry from Truman's u/c towers; this is one of those cases when I'm thankful it's not taller.
 
I agree with others Bluestone is rather banal, but it's good filler. It won't be seen among the forest of other highrises, and at the end of the day, it's another 150-200 people in the Beltline fronting onto a cycle track.
 
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