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An extensive commercial facade study demonstrating how long horizontal volumes can be rhythmically articulated using repetitive window grids and vertical screen breaks.
- What we like about this project
- The sheer length of the uniform facade is broken only by two dark, vertical semi-transparent screen elements.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- grid-facade
- punched-windows
- double-skin-screen
- long-block
Style tags
- modernist
- rationalist
- commercial
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- commercial
- modernist
- streetwall
- transit-oriented
- Geometry
- An extremely long, multi-story rectilinear block with a rhythmic grid of punched window openings, punctuated by dark vertical glazed screen bays acting as breaks.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated metal and glass curtain wall system with repetitive punched windows and dark vertical accent fins/screens.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-loadbearing curtain wall cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban commercial block spanning multiple city blocks, dwarfing pedestrians and vehicles.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the repetitive vertical mullions and glazed panels of the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Busy urban atmosphere animated by transit, daylight, and civic activity.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with a multi-lane roadway, tram tracks in the foreground, pedestrian crosswalks, and an adjacent green parkette.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal volume frames a wide urban boulevard, establishing a strong streetwall edge balanced by open transit infrastructure and pedestrian plazas.
- Composition rhythm
- Monotonous vertical window grid rhythmically interrupted by darker multi-story vertical glazed bays.
- Style reading
- Post-war modernist commercial architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and office building with ground-floor retail.
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- grid-facade, punched-windows, double-skin-screen, long-block
- Style tags
- modernist, rationalist, commercial
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, commercial, modernist, streetwall, transit-oriented
- Geometry
- An extremely long, multi-story rectilinear block with a rhythmic grid of punched window openings, punctuated by dark vertical glazed screen bays acting as breaks.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated metal and glass curtain wall system with repetitive punched windows and dark vertical accent fins/screens.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-loadbearing curtain wall cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban commercial block spanning multiple city blocks, dwarfing pedestrians and vehicles.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the repetitive vertical mullions and glazed panels of the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Busy urban atmosphere animated by transit, daylight, and civic activity.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with a multi-lane roadway, tram tracks in the foreground, pedestrian crosswalks, and an adjacent green parkette.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal volume frames a wide urban boulevard, establishing a strong streetwall edge balanced by open transit infrastructure and pedestrian plazas.
- Composition rhythm
- Monotonous vertical window grid rhythmically interrupted by darker multi-story vertical glazed bays.
- Style reading
- Post-war modernist commercial architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and office building with ground-floor retail.
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture