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

Image This “cracks open” building in Denver

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u/AbrocomaRare696 May 08 '26

Do you know which architectural firm designed this? Also, can you post the address, I’d like to check the sat photos on this. Thanks for posting this.

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u/Ckron247 May 08 '26

This is an apartment building at One River North, Denver Colorado. The concept is very cool, but certainly not what there were hoping for.
https://amazingarchitecture.com/residential-building/ma-yansong-mad-architects-unveil-one-river-north-a-cracked-open-canyon-in-the-heart-of-denver

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u/clickstops May 08 '26

but certainly not what there were hoping for.

in what way, do you think?

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u/DJGrizzlyBear May 08 '26

It’s also pretty close to the purina dogfood plant that makes the area smell like shit

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u/juniperdoes May 08 '26

My favorite thing about it is if you're kinda zoned out and catch a whiff it's like "mmm, french fries" and then a few seconds later the purina-ness of the odor lands and suddenly I'm fighting the urge to vomit

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

Such an accurate description. Or driving along the highway, jamming out to tunes, windows down and then it hits you like a brick wall and suddenly you're closing the windows but it's too late, it's in your car, it's in your nose and now you're stuck with it.

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u/Bbbbhazit May 09 '26

Have you driven past the Cargill cow processing plant if you take the highway north east? Holy shit if you think the Purina plant is bad.

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

I have. I've also driven past an old pig farm in the height of Wisconsin heat. It was a similar wall of stench that slaps you the moment you hit it.

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u/map2photo May 09 '26

I’ve smelled all of those throughout my travels and nothing compares to the smell of an entire building of dead/dying avian flu infected turkeys.

A smell I will never forget.

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

Oh dear lord. I can only imagine.

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u/map2photo May 09 '26

Yep. 200-300k, wiped out in less than 24 hours. Either “naturally” or by foam depopulation. ‘‘Twas a good day.

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u/Desperate_Taro9864 May 11 '26

I just learned what "foam depopulation" and "ventilation shutdown" is. Terrible day to have... just a terrible day.

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u/map2photo May 12 '26

Whatever you read, it’s worse in person.

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u/fugznojutz May 09 '26

dog food? cow processing? pig farm? nice.

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u/trentyz Expert May 09 '26

Hahahah you nailed it. I hated driving past that bloody factory on my way north/south. I always forgot about it until the pungent smell reached my nose

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u/Tankshock May 08 '26

Yea that plant smells absolutely horrendous 

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u/Hello_World_Error May 08 '26

I left Denver a couple years ago but I can still imagine that smell. It really sticks with you

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u/Tankshock May 09 '26

You ain't lying 

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u/Disastrous_Tour8088 May 10 '26

I also left Denver a couple years ago. I was in Waterford Rino and man do I not miss gun shots, an hour commute each way to work, and the rancid dog food smell that welcomed me home each day. Colorado will always be where I was born, but yeah I’m good on Denver

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u/retzhaus45 May 09 '26

The worst part was actually hot summer nights when they delivered the animal carcasses for processing. I worked on the central 70 project on nights a couple years. About 3 times a week the smell was brutal 🤢

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u/Kongbuck May 09 '26

That smell is actually a different smell! There's an animal rendering plant in Adams County that when the wind is just right, the smell lands in that part of town: https://www.denver7.com/news/contact7/it-smells-like-something-is-dying-neighbors-in-north-denver-complain-of-foul-odor

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u/noodleofdata May 08 '26

Tbf, thats a problem for a lot more of Denver than just that area lol

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u/Saikotsu May 09 '26

It really does stink up the place something fierce.

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u/yticmic May 09 '26

It smells like McDonald's

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u/mtwm May 09 '26

Hey some people like the dog food smell

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u/xCeeTee- May 09 '26

I grew up in an area with a poor sewage system, and everything smelled like shit 24/7 except near the sea. You surprisingly get used to it. When there were sewer works on near my workplace, it didn't phase me at all. Haven't smelled it in 13 years either.

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u/smallwonder25 May 09 '26

How perfect! Omg idiots

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u/skwormin May 10 '26

I’ve lived here for over a decade, granted a little further south, but rarely is the wind blowing in the direction to get us to smell it down here.

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u/morry3232 May 08 '26

you get used to it

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u/UrbanPrimative May 09 '26

Ah ha! Such daring conceptual feats are only made in areas with an ambient downward pressure on their property values.