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An urban hotel building precedent showcasing the juxtaposition of a curved stone-clad corner massing with an active multi-story orthogonal facade and street-level dining.
- What we like about this project
- The transition from a rounded, landmark corner volume directly into a rectilinear grid wing.
Materials
- limestone
- glass
- metal
- canvas
Visual identifiers
- curved-facade
- limestone-cladding
- punched-windows
- commercial-awnings
- urban-corner
Style tags
- mid-century
- rationalist
- commercial
Visual tags
- hospitality
- urban-facade
- stone-cladding
- street-edge
- commercial-podium
- Geometry
- An angular urban corner building featuring a prominent curved facade on the left, transitioning to a flat, multi-bay orthogonal facade on the right. Fenestration is organized on a regular grid across limestone-clad panels.
- Facade system
- Limestone panel rainscreen or masonry cladding with punched, brass-trimmed windows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete or steel frame with masonry/stone load-bearing or curtain-wall infill.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story urban hotel building with a human-scaled ground floor retail and dining frontage.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting crisp shadows across the facade panels and storefront overhangs under a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and bustling urban atmosphere grounded by solid stone architecture and sunlit cafe terraces.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban streetscape with mature roadside trees, street furniture, and adjacent historic city fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level commercial awnings and cafe seating create an active public interface, while the heavy stone upper facade reads as a monumental urban block.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of punched windows paired with horizontal ground-floor awnings and a sweeping curved corner.
- Style reading
- Mid-century modern commercial architecture with stone cladding
- Program
- Hotel with ground-floor restaurant and retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- limestone, glass, metal, canvas
- Visual identifiers
- curved-facade, limestone-cladding, punched-windows, commercial-awnings, urban-corner
- Style tags
- mid-century, rationalist, commercial
- Visual tags
- hospitality, urban-facade, stone-cladding, street-edge, commercial-podium
- Geometry
- An angular urban corner building featuring a prominent curved facade on the left, transitioning to a flat, multi-bay orthogonal facade on the right. Fenestration is organized on a regular grid across limestone-clad panels.
- Facade system
- Limestone panel rainscreen or masonry cladding with punched, brass-trimmed windows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete or steel frame with masonry/stone load-bearing or curtain-wall infill.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story urban hotel building with a human-scaled ground floor retail and dining frontage.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting crisp shadows across the facade panels and storefront overhangs under a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and bustling urban atmosphere grounded by solid stone architecture and sunlit cafe terraces.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban streetscape with mature roadside trees, street furniture, and adjacent historic city fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level commercial awnings and cafe seating create an active public interface, while the heavy stone upper facade reads as a monumental urban block.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of punched windows paired with horizontal ground-floor awnings and a sweeping curved corner.
- Style reading
- Mid-century modern commercial architecture with stone cladding
- Program
- Hotel with ground-floor restaurant and retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture