The Dime
An aerial site view of The Dime tower by Fogarty Finger, demonstrating its urban presence and massing relationship to highway infrastructure and lower-scale neighborhood fabric.
- What we like about this project
- The stark juxtaposition between the refined gridded tower and the heavy curved sweeps of the adjacent highway interchange.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- grid-tower
- highway-curve
- urban-context
- slender-high-rise
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- infrastructure
- high-rise
- exterior-facade
- cityscape
- Geometry
- Slender multi-story tower with a regular grid facade rising from a stepped base, positioned prominently alongside a sweeping elevated highway curve.
- Facade system
- Unitized gridded facade with regular vertical and horizontal framing members.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel structure with a unitized window wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale cityscape overview showing a high-rise tower against a vast horizon and highway infrastructure.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight with direct sun illuminating the tower facade and casting long shadows across the urban context.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, crisp daylight emphasizing the crisp geometry of the tower against an open blue sky.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban setting featuring mixed-scale residential blocks, bare deciduous trees, and an elevated multi-lane highway loop.
- Spatial experience
- The high vantage point reveals the tower as a distinct vertical marker dominating the surrounding lower-scale urban fabric and roadway infrastructure.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid lines on the tower contrast with the dynamic sweeping curves of the elevated highway.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential tower
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- grid-tower, highway-curve, urban-context, slender-high-rise
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, infrastructure, high-rise, exterior-facade, cityscape
- Geometry
- Slender multi-story tower with a regular grid facade rising from a stepped base, positioned prominently alongside a sweeping elevated highway curve.
- Facade system
- Unitized gridded facade with regular vertical and horizontal framing members.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel structure with a unitized window wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale cityscape overview showing a high-rise tower against a vast horizon and highway infrastructure.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight with direct sun illuminating the tower facade and casting long shadows across the urban context.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, crisp daylight emphasizing the crisp geometry of the tower against an open blue sky.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban setting featuring mixed-scale residential blocks, bare deciduous trees, and an elevated multi-lane highway loop.
- Spatial experience
- The high vantage point reveals the tower as a distinct vertical marker dominating the surrounding lower-scale urban fabric and roadway infrastructure.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid lines on the tower contrast with the dynamic sweeping curves of the elevated highway.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential tower
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture