Los Angles Kings & Lakers Training Center
An exterior facade precedent showing a large sports training facility entry defined by a bold black canopy and multi-toned concrete block walls.
- What we like about this project
- The extreme contrast between the patterned gray block wall and the solid gloss-black mass of the entry canopy.
Materials
- concrete-masonry-units
- asphalt
- painted-metal
- glass
Visual identifiers
- black-canopy
- cmj-facade
- parking-lot-approach
- cantilevered-roof
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- utilitarian
Visual tags
- commercial-sports
- canopy
- masonry-facade
- industrial-architecture
- large-scale
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal facility fronted by an extensive asphalt parking lot, featuring a massive cantilevered black canopy over a large recessed entry portal and multi-toned concrete masonry unit facade.
- Facade system
- Multi-tone concrete masonry unit walls combined with a dark metal panel or painted fascia canopy system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete masonry infill walls and heavy steel canopy framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial sports training facility with a massive entry opening and sprawling surface parking.
- Lighting
- Bright midday direct sunlight casting crisp shadows under vehicles and underneath the deep canopy overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Utilitarian, expansive, and sun-baked commercial training center context.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or commercial lot setting with neighboring multi-story parking structures under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The approach moves from a vast open parking area toward a bold, shaded deep entryway sheltered by a heavy, dark canopy structure.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing broken by the vertical punch of a massive black structural column supporting the main canopy overhang.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial industrial architecture
- Program
- Sports training center and facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete-masonry-units, asphalt, painted-metal, glass
- Visual identifiers
- black-canopy, cmj-facade, parking-lot-approach, cantilevered-roof
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, utilitarian
- Visual tags
- commercial-sports, canopy, masonry-facade, industrial-architecture, large-scale
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal facility fronted by an extensive asphalt parking lot, featuring a massive cantilevered black canopy over a large recessed entry portal and multi-toned concrete masonry unit facade.
- Facade system
- Multi-tone concrete masonry unit walls combined with a dark metal panel or painted fascia canopy system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete masonry infill walls and heavy steel canopy framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial sports training facility with a massive entry opening and sprawling surface parking.
- Lighting
- Bright midday direct sunlight casting crisp shadows under vehicles and underneath the deep canopy overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Utilitarian, expansive, and sun-baked commercial training center context.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or commercial lot setting with neighboring multi-story parking structures under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The approach moves from a vast open parking area toward a bold, shaded deep entryway sheltered by a heavy, dark canopy structure.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing broken by the vertical punch of a massive black structural column supporting the main canopy overhang.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial industrial architecture
- Program
- Sports training center and facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture