Gensler
An aerial precedent for high-rise commercial architecture featuring stacked cantilevered volumes and a strong gridded curtain wall system.
- What we like about this project
- The upper floors feature dramatic cantilevers that create a dynamic shifting profile against the sky.
Materials
- glass
- dark-metal
- steel
Visual identifiers
- gridded-curtain-wall
- stepped-massing
- tower-crown
- cantilevered-volumes
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- rationalist
Visual tags
- high-rise
- commercial-tower
- curtain-wall
- urban-context
- mixed-use
- Geometry
- The tower massing features stepped cantilevers and shifting floor plates that break down the overall height into distinct stacked volumes, terminating in a prominent illuminated crown.
- Facade system
- Unitized dark metal and glass grid curtain wall with varying window-to-wall ratios.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core and composite floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Skyscraper scale; towering over surrounding urban fabric with multi-story podium elements at street level.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with soft, directional golden-hour light catching the western facade and interior lights beginning to glow through the grid.
- Atmosphere
- Dynamic urban energy at dusk, balancing cold metal and glass with warm interior glows.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban setting adjacent to highway infrastructure, bridges, and surrounding mid-to-high-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- From an aerial vantage point, the towers read as dense urban interventions anchoring a major transportation node with active podium terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- A rigorous vertical grid of mullions interrupted by horizontal slab edges and stepping mass shifts.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use high-rise
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, dark-metal, steel
- Visual identifiers
- gridded-curtain-wall, stepped-massing, tower-crown, cantilevered-volumes
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, rationalist
- Visual tags
- high-rise, commercial-tower, curtain-wall, urban-context, mixed-use
- Geometry
- The tower massing features stepped cantilevers and shifting floor plates that break down the overall height into distinct stacked volumes, terminating in a prominent illuminated crown.
- Facade system
- Unitized dark metal and glass grid curtain wall with varying window-to-wall ratios.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core and composite floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Skyscraper scale; towering over surrounding urban fabric with multi-story podium elements at street level.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with soft, directional golden-hour light catching the western facade and interior lights beginning to glow through the grid.
- Atmosphere
- Dynamic urban energy at dusk, balancing cold metal and glass with warm interior glows.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban setting adjacent to highway infrastructure, bridges, and surrounding mid-to-high-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- From an aerial vantage point, the towers read as dense urban interventions anchoring a major transportation node with active podium terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- A rigorous vertical grid of mullions interrupted by horizontal slab edges and stepping mass shifts.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use high-rise
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture