Buro-OS_Mahanakhon-in-Bangkok
北京
An urban exterior view featuring Büro Ole Scheeren's Mahanakhon tower, demonstrating how a carved voxel massing strategy creates a striking profile against a dense metropolitan skyline.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- pixelated-facade
- carved-voxel-tower
- glass-skyscraper
- urban-arterial
Style tags
- contemporary
- parametric
- high-tech
Visual tags
- skyscraper
- urban-context
- pixelated
- high-rise
- facade-carving
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower featuring a spiraling carved voxel facade that contrasts against surrounding conventional high-rises and low-scale street fabric.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with recessed pixelated void modules.
- Structural guess
- Composite steel and concrete core-and-outrigger structural system.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower dominating a wide metropolitan street corridor with pedestrians for scale.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across the street surface and the reflective glass tower facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, expansive metropolitan atmosphere captured along a wide urban corridor.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban arterial street flanked by low-rise traditional shop-houses and modern high-rises in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The towering pixelated form commands the urban skyline, terminating a wide multi-lane avenue lined with mature trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition of street lane markers and tree lines leading the eye upward toward the fractured silhouette of the skyscraper.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric skyscraper architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use skyscraper (residential and hotel)
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- pixelated-facade, carved-voxel-tower, glass-skyscraper, urban-arterial
- Style tags
- contemporary, parametric, high-tech
- Visual tags
- skyscraper, urban-context, pixelated, high-rise, facade-carving
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower featuring a spiraling carved voxel facade that contrasts against surrounding conventional high-rises and low-scale street fabric.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with recessed pixelated void modules.
- Structural guess
- Composite steel and concrete core-and-outrigger structural system.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower dominating a wide metropolitan street corridor with pedestrians for scale.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across the street surface and the reflective glass tower facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, expansive metropolitan atmosphere captured along a wide urban corridor.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban arterial street flanked by low-rise traditional shop-houses and modern high-rises in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The towering pixelated form commands the urban skyline, terminating a wide multi-lane avenue lined with mature trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition of street lane markers and tree lines leading the eye upward toward the fractured silhouette of the skyscraper.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric skyscraper architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use skyscraper (residential and hotel)
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture