High Rise Office at Alexandra Terrace
A high-rise commercial office precedent showcasing heterogeneous facade treatments, stacked programmatic modules, and exposed concrete structural elements within an urban context.
- What we like about this project
- A central mid-rise module features playful circular portholes contrasting with strict corporate curtain wall grids.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- wood
- steel
Visual identifiers
- stacked-cantilevers
- exposed-concrete
- circular-windows
- tower-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- tectonic
- heterogeneous
Visual tags
- high-rise
- commercial-office
- stacked-volumes
- urban-infill
- contemporary
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical vertical composition combining slab blocks, exposed concrete shear walls, and a central articulated tower with stacked cantilevered modules.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing combined with punched circular windows in wood-clad modules and vertical louvers.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and shear walls with steel or concrete framing for cantilevered volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story high-rise commercial complex towering over mature canopy trees.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight with strong backlighting from an overcast sky, casting soft shadows across the landscape and foreground trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, institutional composure set against mature greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban office precinct flanked by mature trees and a park-like lawn leading to the tower base.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a monumental urban facade framed by surrounding trees, with deep recesses and distinct programmatic volumes breaking down the vertical scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis interrupted by distinct horizontal module breaks and varied fenestration rhythms.
- Style reading
- Contemporary stacked tectonic high-rise
- Program
- Commercial Office Tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, wood, steel
- Visual identifiers
- stacked-cantilevers, exposed-concrete, circular-windows, tower-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, tectonic, heterogeneous
- Visual tags
- high-rise, commercial-office, stacked-volumes, urban-infill, contemporary
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical vertical composition combining slab blocks, exposed concrete shear walls, and a central articulated tower with stacked cantilevered modules.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing combined with punched circular windows in wood-clad modules and vertical louvers.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and shear walls with steel or concrete framing for cantilevered volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story high-rise commercial complex towering over mature canopy trees.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight with strong backlighting from an overcast sky, casting soft shadows across the landscape and foreground trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, institutional composure set against mature greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban office precinct flanked by mature trees and a park-like lawn leading to the tower base.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a monumental urban facade framed by surrounding trees, with deep recesses and distinct programmatic volumes breaking down the vertical scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis interrupted by distinct horizontal module breaks and varied fenestration rhythms.
- Style reading
- Contemporary stacked tectonic high-rise
- Program
- Commercial Office Tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture