Wells Fargo Center

Not only is this bank gorgeous, I mean its got glass dome thingy surrounding it and a full crazy museum of pretty Wells Fargo artifacts– who knew that’s even a thing? I learned so much I tell ya– anyways I come here because a. I feel Fancy in my big beautiful downtown bank, (for some reason I have this wacky notion that super rich people have Wells Fargo accounts) and b. for a banker that works there named Heaven T. She’s grade A amazing. Not only does she help me organize all 4 of my accounts, and the absurd amounts of money, checks, and pay checks I bring in all crumpled and messed up from being in the bottom of my bag for 2 weeks straight. She also is a real person, not like one of those scary judge mental bankers with a suit on and probably like a credit score south of 700 and a bazillion dollars in his checking account. She’s real and doesn’t make me feel stupid for having -.18 cents in my savings because I forgot to return my red box. I feel like even though I’ve only met her like gosh probably 9 times that she’s a friend and we are hanging out and chatting while she figures out the disaster that are my finances. I come here for her because there are several wellsfargos closer to my unaffordable Lodo loft. Who says Unilocal is just for food joints eh?

I like this building. This building has been my work home for approx 5 years. As my company grows, so does our need for space, so we will be leaving this location very soon, and I am a little bummed. This building is managed by Maguire properties and they do an excellent job of keeping this building in shape.
~One of the few building’s that has a 13^th floor.
~Speedy Elevators.
~Parking Garage and Fitness center.
~Great Window Views!
Growing up here in Colorado it’s kinda neat to say I have worked in the «Cash Register» building.

Strange set up. There are like 10 drive through banking stations and it felt like there is a wall of bullet proof glass between the patrons and the bankers. What is their deal? I mean I felt like I was in Compton circa early 1990’s.

This building occupies a parcel of land that was once a plaza designed by I. M. Pei that had a waterfall, a pool with rainbow trout, and a hyperbolic arch pavilion, completed in 1956.
Today, the Cash Register, a monument to the oil boom, is Denver’s most recognizable skyscraper. It’s opposing arch top, while debatably horrendous, distinguishes it from the typical rectangular shapes of nearly every other building in the skyline. I think that uniqueness deserves a star.
Bottom line: without this building, Denver’s skyline would be even less competitive with other American cities’.

One of the reasons I think people like the 80’s so much is that once you are done with that 80’s song, or that 80’s themed party, you are automatically back in the 21^st century. However, when someone, say some architect named Phillip Johnson, decides to erect one of the tallest buildings in Denver with that specific 1980’s flavor, well… we all pay for it till god knows how long.
Finished in 1983 the Wells Fargo Center building is supposed to look like a cash register — apparently — as fits the two main occupants of the building: Wells Fargo and Newmont Mining Corporation.
For me, this building in particular reminds me that the Denver skyline just can’t compare to the plethora of other American skylines. In all honesty, the building is an aesthetic nightmare… so much so that it dominates the view. Retro is fine… except when retro overtakes your skyline.
Most people think that this is the tallest building in Denver… well it probably seems like that since the eyes most naturally move towards this monstrosity. (Actually its 3^rd)
That said, this building still gets 2 stars for the simple fact that the roof must be heated so that snow will not collect and then slope off in dangerous quantities. Thus, when blizzards occur, good old baldy is snow-​free, like Tuscon in Summer.