The Metropole Building Project
An aerial exterior perspective of The Metropole Building demonstrating historic stone architecture and street-level urban conditions, useful for adaptive reuse and context studies.
- What we like about this project
- Vibrant contemporary graffiti completely covers the lower blank perimeter wall beneath historic stonework.
Materials
- stone
- masonry
- glass
- painted-wood
Visual identifiers
- stone-facade
- arched-windows
- graffiti-wall
- historic-masonry
- urban-context
Style tags
- historic
- vernacular
- urban
Visual tags
- historic-preservation
- urban-infill
- facade-restoration
- streetscape
- adaptive-reuse
- Geometry
- An elevated oblique perspective looking down at an urban street-facing historic facade and triangular roof condition.
- Facade system
- Heavy masonry load-bearing stone facade featuring regular punched arched and rectangular openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with interior timber or steel framing.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale urban context shot showing a multi-story historic commercial building relative to surrounding mid-rise blocks.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows across the building facade and surrounding streetscape.
- Atmosphere
- Gritty, authentic urban atmosphere showing layers of historic fabric and contemporary street expression.
- Environmental context
- Dense historic urban environment with adjacent brick and stone masonry structures, paved streets, and bare trees.
- Spatial experience
- The view places the heritage structure within its dense urban context, revealing its relationship to the surrounding street grid and neighboring masonry buildings.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating arched window bays on the upper level create a steady rhythmic facade progression.
- Style reading
- Historic urban preservation
- Program
- Mixed-use historic commercial building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, masonry, glass, painted-wood
- Visual identifiers
- stone-facade, arched-windows, graffiti-wall, historic-masonry, urban-context
- Style tags
- historic, vernacular, urban
- Visual tags
- historic-preservation, urban-infill, facade-restoration, streetscape, adaptive-reuse
- Geometry
- An elevated oblique perspective looking down at an urban street-facing historic facade and triangular roof condition.
- Facade system
- Heavy masonry load-bearing stone facade featuring regular punched arched and rectangular openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with interior timber or steel framing.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale urban context shot showing a multi-story historic commercial building relative to surrounding mid-rise blocks.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows across the building facade and surrounding streetscape.
- Atmosphere
- Gritty, authentic urban atmosphere showing layers of historic fabric and contemporary street expression.
- Environmental context
- Dense historic urban environment with adjacent brick and stone masonry structures, paved streets, and bare trees.
- Spatial experience
- The view places the heritage structure within its dense urban context, revealing its relationship to the surrounding street grid and neighboring masonry buildings.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating arched window bays on the upper level create a steady rhythmic facade progression.
- Style reading
- Historic urban preservation
- Program
- Mixed-use historic commercial building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture