489 State Street , The Alloy Block, Downtown
An urban contextual precedent by Alloy Development demonstrating how a dark brick mid-rise and slender glass high-rise can interface with historic neighborhood fabric at a dense city intersection.
- What we like about this project
- The seamless transition at the podium level where the dark brick volume steps back and anchors the base of the slender glass tower.
Materials
- dark-brick
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- dark-brick-facade
- slender-tower
- punched-windows
- urban-corner
- mixed-use-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- contextual
- high-rise
- masonry
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical massing composition pairing a monolithic dark brick mid-rise block with a slender, vertical-ribbed glass and metal high-rise tower, establishing a varied urban streetwall.
- Facade system
- Dark textured masonry cladding with punched windows alongside a unitized vertical glass and metal curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame and concrete core construction for the high-rise tower with masonry-clad structural framing for the mid-rise block.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale at the street front transitioning rapidly to multi-story mid-rise and high-rise vertical scales.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with even illumination across facades and soft shadows on the street level.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling, active city street condition balanced by the solid, grounding presence of dark masonry.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street intersection with multi-lane traffic, crosswalks, mature street trees, and historic masonry architecture nearby.
- Spatial experience
- The intersection view frames a dialogue between heavy modern masonry and slender vertical glazing against historic brick fabric, establishing a distinct urban corner.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal punched window rows on the mid-rise contrast with soaring vertical mullion lines on the adjacent tall tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban contextualism
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-brick, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- dark-brick-facade, slender-tower, punched-windows, urban-corner, mixed-use-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, mixed-use, contextual, high-rise, masonry
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical massing composition pairing a monolithic dark brick mid-rise block with a slender, vertical-ribbed glass and metal high-rise tower, establishing a varied urban streetwall.
- Facade system
- Dark textured masonry cladding with punched windows alongside a unitized vertical glass and metal curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame and concrete core construction for the high-rise tower with masonry-clad structural framing for the mid-rise block.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale at the street front transitioning rapidly to multi-story mid-rise and high-rise vertical scales.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with even illumination across facades and soft shadows on the street level.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling, active city street condition balanced by the solid, grounding presence of dark masonry.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street intersection with multi-lane traffic, crosswalks, mature street trees, and historic masonry architecture nearby.
- Spatial experience
- The intersection view frames a dialogue between heavy modern masonry and slender vertical glazing against historic brick fabric, establishing a distinct urban corner.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal punched window rows on the mid-rise contrast with soaring vertical mullion lines on the adjacent tall tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban contextualism
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture