South Bridge Road Office
An exterior precedent showing how a contemporary metal-clad office block with a rounded corner and glazed rooftop pavilion interfaces with a historic low-rise street context.
- What we like about this project
- Deeply recessed corner balconies on the curved facade house integrated trees visible from the street level.
Materials
- bronze-metal
- glass
- concrete
- planting
Visual identifiers
- textured-metal-cladding
- rounded-corner
- dark-glass-rooftop
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban-commercial
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- contextual
- mixed-scale
- corner-building
- rooftop-terrace
- Geometry
- An orthogonal lower mass with a rounded corner wraps the street intersection, surmounted by a reflective dark glass box volume that steps back to form a planted terrace.
- Facade system
- Textured metallic standing-seam or folded metal panel cladding system with punched rectilinear windows and a glazed curtain wall top level.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame structure supporting a lightweight steel or glazed upper pavilion.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise office building contrasting directly with two-story neighborhood shophouses.
- Lighting
- Soft daylight illuminates the bronze cladding panels while strong reflections cast across the dark rooftop glass volume.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic urban presence bridging old and new city fabric.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner site adjacent to low-rise traditional shophouses with terracotta tiled roofs and a background of high-rise towers.
- Spatial experience
- From the elevated vantage point, the building anchors the corner where modern office scale meets low-rise historic shophouse fabric across the street.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical panel seams on the facade alternate with recessed punched windows stepped along the corner curve.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban office
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- bronze-metal, glass, concrete, planting
- Visual identifiers
- textured-metal-cladding, rounded-corner, dark-glass-rooftop, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban-commercial
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, contextual, mixed-scale, corner-building, rooftop-terrace
- Geometry
- An orthogonal lower mass with a rounded corner wraps the street intersection, surmounted by a reflective dark glass box volume that steps back to form a planted terrace.
- Facade system
- Textured metallic standing-seam or folded metal panel cladding system with punched rectilinear windows and a glazed curtain wall top level.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame structure supporting a lightweight steel or glazed upper pavilion.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise office building contrasting directly with two-story neighborhood shophouses.
- Lighting
- Soft daylight illuminates the bronze cladding panels while strong reflections cast across the dark rooftop glass volume.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic urban presence bridging old and new city fabric.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner site adjacent to low-rise traditional shophouses with terracotta tiled roofs and a background of high-rise towers.
- Spatial experience
- From the elevated vantage point, the building anchors the corner where modern office scale meets low-rise historic shophouse fabric across the street.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical panel seams on the facade alternate with recessed punched windows stepped along the corner curve.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban office
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture