The Eight
A striking worm's-eye view of a high-rise tower featuring a curved glass curtain wall and continuous vertical fins—useful for studies in corporate envelope geometry and vertical rhythm.
- What we like about this project
- The inward concave sweep of the facade softens the otherwise rigid corporate tower typology.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- curved-facade
- glass-tower
- vertical-fins
- worm-eye-view
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- high-tech
Visual tags
- commercial
- high-rise
- curvilinear
- curtain-wall
- corporate
- Geometry
- Tower mass curves gently inward toward the base with vertical mullions sweeping along the concave surface.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with protruding vertical mullions/fins.
- Structural guess
- Steel or composite frame with perimeter moment connections supporting a hanging curtain wall.
- Spatial scale
- Colossal commercial tower scale viewed from the ground.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast blue hour sky with warm interior lighting glowing from the base levels.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, cool, and monumental against the blue dusk sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban high-rise setting framed against a dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- Looking up from street level, the converging vertical lines emphasize extreme height and sleek curvature.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical striping of mullions creates a steady upward acceleration of lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- curved-facade, glass-tower, vertical-fins, worm-eye-view
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, high-tech
- Visual tags
- commercial, high-rise, curvilinear, curtain-wall, corporate
- Geometry
- Tower mass curves gently inward toward the base with vertical mullions sweeping along the concave surface.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with protruding vertical mullions/fins.
- Structural guess
- Steel or composite frame with perimeter moment connections supporting a hanging curtain wall.
- Spatial scale
- Colossal commercial tower scale viewed from the ground.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast blue hour sky with warm interior lighting glowing from the base levels.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, cool, and monumental against the blue dusk sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban high-rise setting framed against a dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- Looking up from street level, the converging vertical lines emphasize extreme height and sleek curvature.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical striping of mullions creates a steady upward acceleration of lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture