165 Halsey Street Data Center
A classic urban commercial facade exhibiting a robust tripartite composition, useful as a precedent for large-scale adaptive reuse and historic infrastructure integration.
- What we like about this project
- Delicate historic multi-pane arches integrated into the lower two-story retail base contrast sharply with the heavy upper masonry tiers.
Materials
- masonry
- cast-iron
- glass
- steel
- stone
Visual identifiers
- historic-masonry-facade
- tripartite-elevation
- ornate-ground-floor
- punched-windows
Style tags
- historic
- commercial-classicism
- ornate
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- commercial
- historic-preservation
- urban-facade
- heavy-masonry
- Geometry
- Large multi-story commercial block with a tripartite vertical division: expansive cast iron and glass storefront base, repetitively fenestrated mid-levels, and a decorative classical cornice capping the upper floors.
- Facade system
- Masonry load-bearing structure with punched window openings above a glazed metal-and-stone storefront system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry cladding and heavy floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial scale spanning several vertical stories above a tall retail base.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with clear overhead sun casting sharp, short shadows across the architectural relief and reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Busy urban daytime character combining historic commercial weight with modern city street activity.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street intersection with sidewalks, traffic lights, and parked vehicles.
- Spatial experience
- From street level, the massive masonry and steel facade reads as a heavy urban presence, with large multi-pane display windows anchoring the pedestrian experience.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical window alignment paired with horizontal belt courses separating the major structural tiers.
- Style reading
- Early 20th-century commercial classicism
- Program
- Data center and mixed commercial use
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- masonry, cast-iron, glass, steel, stone
- Visual identifiers
- historic-masonry-facade, tripartite-elevation, ornate-ground-floor, punched-windows
- Style tags
- historic, commercial-classicism, ornate
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, commercial, historic-preservation, urban-facade, heavy-masonry
- Geometry
- Large multi-story commercial block with a tripartite vertical division: expansive cast iron and glass storefront base, repetitively fenestrated mid-levels, and a decorative classical cornice capping the upper floors.
- Facade system
- Masonry load-bearing structure with punched window openings above a glazed metal-and-stone storefront system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry cladding and heavy floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial scale spanning several vertical stories above a tall retail base.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with clear overhead sun casting sharp, short shadows across the architectural relief and reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Busy urban daytime character combining historic commercial weight with modern city street activity.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street intersection with sidewalks, traffic lights, and parked vehicles.
- Spatial experience
- From street level, the massive masonry and steel facade reads as a heavy urban presence, with large multi-pane display windows anchoring the pedestrian experience.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical window alignment paired with horizontal belt courses separating the major structural tiers.
- Style reading
- Early 20th-century commercial classicism
- Program
- Data center and mixed commercial use
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture