160 Front Street
An exterior street-level view of a high-rise commercial tower featuring expressive diagrid base geometry and clean vertical curtain wall integration, useful for urban skyscraper precedents.
- What we like about this project
- Large sweeping cutout bands carve horizontally through the upper levels of the glass massing.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- aluminum
- brick
Visual identifiers
- curved-diagrid
- skyscraper
- curtain-wall
- mechanical-cutout
Style tags
- contemporary
- high-tech
- corporate
Visual tags
- high-rise
- commercial
- urban-context
- glass-tower
- structural-expression
- Geometry
- Slender high-rise tower featuring distinctive curved diagrid structural elements at the base, sweeping vertical curtain walls, and horizontal mechanical floor cutouts near the crown.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated horizontal spandrel bands and exposed structural diagrid elements at lower levels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with diagonal bracing members at the base and composite core construction.
- Spatial scale
- Massive skyscraper scale contrasting with human figures and vehicles at street level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows under a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active urban day scene with a commanding structural presence.
- Environmental context
- Dense downtown street intersection with vehicular and pedestrian traffic, surrounded by multi-story commercial and office buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The tower commands the urban street corridor, soaring above the surrounding mid-rise brick and high-rise glass context.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical continuous glazing rhythm punctuated by horizontal mechanical recesses and diagonal base bracing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, aluminum, brick
- Visual identifiers
- curved-diagrid, skyscraper, curtain-wall, mechanical-cutout
- Style tags
- contemporary, high-tech, corporate
- Visual tags
- high-rise, commercial, urban-context, glass-tower, structural-expression
- Geometry
- Slender high-rise tower featuring distinctive curved diagrid structural elements at the base, sweeping vertical curtain walls, and horizontal mechanical floor cutouts near the crown.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated horizontal spandrel bands and exposed structural diagrid elements at lower levels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with diagonal bracing members at the base and composite core construction.
- Spatial scale
- Massive skyscraper scale contrasting with human figures and vehicles at street level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows under a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active urban day scene with a commanding structural presence.
- Environmental context
- Dense downtown street intersection with vehicular and pedestrian traffic, surrounded by multi-story commercial and office buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The tower commands the urban street corridor, soaring above the surrounding mid-rise brick and high-rise glass context.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical continuous glazing rhythm punctuated by horizontal mechanical recesses and diagonal base bracing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture