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An urban high-rise precedent by GF55 Architects showcasing sharp corner massing and curtain wall glazing along a major traffic artery at dusk.
- What we like about this project
- The extreme sharpness of the tower corner facing the street creates a knife-edge silhouette against the evening sky.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- acute-corner
- high-rise-residential
- curtain-wall
- dusk-traffic-trails
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- high-rise
Visual tags
- high-rise
- urban-density
- residential-tower
- dusk-photography
- street-view
- Geometry
- Tall slender massing with sharp acute corner geometry facing the foreground street intersection, flanked by companion vertical volumes.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical panel divisions.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel superstructure with shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential scale dominating the immediate streetscape by many stories.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior window illumination and long exposure red and white traffic light trails on the street below.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, cool urban evening atmosphere charged with motion blur from street traffic.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with multi-lane roads, mature street trees, and surrounding high-rise buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Tower looms dramatically over the bustling urban street edge, framing the avenue with a sharp vertical wedge.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions contrasted against the dramatic wedge profile of the primary tower corner.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- High-rise multi-family residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- acute-corner, high-rise-residential, curtain-wall, dusk-traffic-trails
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, high-rise
- Visual tags
- high-rise, urban-density, residential-tower, dusk-photography, street-view
- Geometry
- Tall slender massing with sharp acute corner geometry facing the foreground street intersection, flanked by companion vertical volumes.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical panel divisions.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel superstructure with shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential scale dominating the immediate streetscape by many stories.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior window illumination and long exposure red and white traffic light trails on the street below.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, cool urban evening atmosphere charged with motion blur from street traffic.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with multi-lane roads, mature street trees, and surrounding high-rise buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Tower looms dramatically over the bustling urban street edge, framing the avenue with a sharp vertical wedge.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions contrasted against the dramatic wedge profile of the primary tower corner.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- High-rise multi-family residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture