1921 Cortelyou Road — ESKW/Architects
An urban infill residential project utilizing a rhythm of punched windows across red and grey brick volumes to establish a strong corner presence.
- What we like about this project
- Individual through-wall air conditioning units are systematically integrated into nearly every window bay.
Materials
- red-brick
- grey-brick
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- corner-massing
- punched-windows
- grey-brick-core
- ground-floor-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban-contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- residential
- brick-architecture
- street-edge
- corner-building
- Geometry
- An articulated multi-volume massing stepping back at upper levels, featuring a pronounced corner condition with regular punched window grids and a contrasting vertical grey brick core.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or backup wall with red and grey face brick masonry, punched windows, and recessed glazed storefront base.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat slab structure with masonry veneer backup walls.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban residential building, roughly eight stories tall relative to pedestrians and cars on the street.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime lighting with clear shadows cast across the facade and street level under a cloudy sky.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp daytime urban atmosphere highlighting material contrast between warm red brick and cooler grey masonry elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with crosswalks, parked cars, street signs, and adjacent lower-scale neighborhood buildings and trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, presenting a dense masonry urban frontage with a glazed commercial base opening to the sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments and dark vertical spandrel panels create steady rhythms across the wide red brick facades.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building with ground-floor retail or community space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, grey-brick, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, corner-massing, punched-windows, grey-brick-core, ground-floor-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban-contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, residential, brick-architecture, street-edge, corner-building
- Geometry
- An articulated multi-volume massing stepping back at upper levels, featuring a pronounced corner condition with regular punched window grids and a contrasting vertical grey brick core.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or backup wall with red and grey face brick masonry, punched windows, and recessed glazed storefront base.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat slab structure with masonry veneer backup walls.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban residential building, roughly eight stories tall relative to pedestrians and cars on the street.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime lighting with clear shadows cast across the facade and street level under a cloudy sky.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp daytime urban atmosphere highlighting material contrast between warm red brick and cooler grey masonry elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with crosswalks, parked cars, street signs, and adjacent lower-scale neighborhood buildings and trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, presenting a dense masonry urban frontage with a glazed commercial base opening to the sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments and dark vertical spandrel panels create steady rhythms across the wide red brick facades.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building with ground-floor retail or community space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture