FXCollaborative – The Forge
An exterior street view of The Forge residential tower, demonstrating tall vertical massing clad in warm red panels with disciplined window alignments.
- What we like about this project
- The slender proportions and uniform vertical reveals make the tower read taller and more solid than typical glass skyscrapers.
Materials
- terra-cotta
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- terra-cotta-facade
- vertical-window-bands
- high-rise-tower
- street-light-trails
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- rationalist
Visual tags
- high-rise
- residential
- urban-context
- facade-rhythm
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Tall vertical volumes steps up in height, featuring taut planar facades with continuous vertical strips of punched windows.
- Facade system
- Unitized panel system with vertical punched window strips.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame tower.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential scale, towering significantly over the immediate multistory streetscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with long exposure light trails from vehicular traffic at the foreground street edge.
- Atmosphere
- Active urban evening atmosphere softened by warm facade tones and street light trails.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street context surrounded by neighboring high-rises and mid-rise residential buildings.
- Spatial experience
- From the wide urban street, the tower presents a monolithic yet finely textured facade that dominates the horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis created by continuous alignment of window slots running up the full height of the tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Residential apartment tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terra-cotta, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- terra-cotta-facade, vertical-window-bands, high-rise-tower, street-light-trails
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, rationalist
- Visual tags
- high-rise, residential, urban-context, facade-rhythm, contemporary
- Geometry
- Tall vertical volumes steps up in height, featuring taut planar facades with continuous vertical strips of punched windows.
- Facade system
- Unitized panel system with vertical punched window strips.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame tower.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential scale, towering significantly over the immediate multistory streetscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with long exposure light trails from vehicular traffic at the foreground street edge.
- Atmosphere
- Active urban evening atmosphere softened by warm facade tones and street light trails.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street context surrounded by neighboring high-rises and mid-rise residential buildings.
- Spatial experience
- From the wide urban street, the tower presents a monolithic yet finely textured facade that dominates the horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis created by continuous alignment of window slots running up the full height of the tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Residential apartment tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture