Celine Flagship Building Cheongdam Casper Mueller Kneer Architects Copyright Paul Riddle V9 A0315 2
An exterior architectural precedent for textured, perforated brick screens combined with large commercial display glazing on an urban infill site.
- What we like about this project
- The upper brickwork incorporates scattered vertical slots that punctuate the heavy masonry mass like woven textile.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- perforated-brickwork
- flagship-storefront
- staggered-voids
- concrete-and-brick
Style tags
- contemporary
- tactile
- minimal-lux
Visual tags
- retail
- facade
- perforated-screen
- commercial
- textural
- Geometry
- Multi-story vertical stack with a solid upper brick volume featuring staggered voids, sitting atop framed glass storefronts at ground and second levels.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or rainscreen brick masonry with alternating omitted headers for ventilation and light, over metal-framed storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with non-structural masonry cladding and screen walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story commercial retail building viewed from an elevated vantage point across the street.
- Lighting
- Direct overhead daylight casting sharp shadows across the street surface and storefront base.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, daylight-lit urban retail presence balancing heavy perforated masonry with sleek transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage with asphalt road markings and pedestrian scale figures visible.
- Spatial experience
- The facade reads as a monolithic screen from the street below, dissolving into filtered light through the perforated upper brick pattern.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical stacking of solid perforated masonry over horizontal bands of dark-framed glazing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile commercial architecture
- Program
- Flagship retail boutique
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- perforated-brickwork, flagship-storefront, staggered-voids, concrete-and-brick
- Style tags
- contemporary, tactile, minimal-lux
- Visual tags
- retail, facade, perforated-screen, commercial, textural
- Geometry
- Multi-story vertical stack with a solid upper brick volume featuring staggered voids, sitting atop framed glass storefronts at ground and second levels.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or rainscreen brick masonry with alternating omitted headers for ventilation and light, over metal-framed storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with non-structural masonry cladding and screen walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story commercial retail building viewed from an elevated vantage point across the street.
- Lighting
- Direct overhead daylight casting sharp shadows across the street surface and storefront base.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, daylight-lit urban retail presence balancing heavy perforated masonry with sleek transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage with asphalt road markings and pedestrian scale figures visible.
- Spatial experience
- The facade reads as a monolithic screen from the street below, dissolving into filtered light through the perforated upper brick pattern.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical stacking of solid perforated masonry over horizontal bands of dark-framed glazing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile commercial architecture
- Program
- Flagship retail boutique
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture