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An urban high-rise design precedent showing how a patterned tower massing integrates and contrasts with historic downtown streetscapes.
- What we like about this project
- The zig-zag pattern creates a dynamic woven texture across the upper tower facade.
Materials
- glass
- metal-panels
- masonry
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- zig-zag-facade
- stacked-towers
- historic-context
- high-rise-complex
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- high-rise
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- skyscraper
- contextual
- facade-pattern
- mixed-scale
- Geometry
- Stacked high-rise volumes feature a zig-zag patterned facade sitting behind lower historic urban street facades.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with alternating patterned opaque panels and dark recessed window bays.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core high-rise construction.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise towers dwarfing the 4 to 8-story historic buildings along the street.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight under a hazy sky, casting soft shadows across the facades.
- Atmosphere
- Hazy, bright urban morning light emphasizing the scale contrast between old and new.
- Environmental context
- Dense downtown street corridor flanked by historic masonry buildings and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The composition captures the dense layering of vertical skyscraper forms over traditional pedestrian-scale street facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition in skyscraper mullions contrasting with the zig-zag facade panels and historic windows.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use high-rise development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-panels, masonry, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- zig-zag-facade, stacked-towers, historic-context, high-rise-complex
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, high-rise
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, skyscraper, contextual, facade-pattern, mixed-scale
- Geometry
- Stacked high-rise volumes feature a zig-zag patterned facade sitting behind lower historic urban street facades.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with alternating patterned opaque panels and dark recessed window bays.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core high-rise construction.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise towers dwarfing the 4 to 8-story historic buildings along the street.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight under a hazy sky, casting soft shadows across the facades.
- Atmosphere
- Hazy, bright urban morning light emphasizing the scale contrast between old and new.
- Environmental context
- Dense downtown street corridor flanked by historic masonry buildings and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The composition captures the dense layering of vertical skyscraper forms over traditional pedestrian-scale street facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition in skyscraper mullions contrasting with the zig-zag facade panels and historic windows.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use high-rise development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture