215 Warren
An urban residential infill precedent by GRO Architects demonstrating how red brick and deep dark window frames can modernize traditional neighborhood massing.
- What we like about this project
- The central balcony recess utilizes dark paneling that contrasts sharply with the vibrant red brick wings.
Materials
- brick
- metal
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- recessed-balcony
- dark-window-surrounds
- urban-infill
Style tags
- modern-infill
- contextual
- contemporary-brick
Visual tags
- residential
- urban-infill
- brick
- facade-composition
- contextual-architecture
- Geometry
- Rectangular four-story massing with a central recessed vertical balcony bay breaking the red brick facade into two symmetrical wings.
- Facade system
- Red brick masonry veneer with punched windows and dark metal trim frames.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete podium with light-gauge steel framing superstructure.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, fitting contextually within a traditional urban neighborhood fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp shadows from window reveals and creating high contrast across the red brick planes.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and crisp urban residential character.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street setting between historic masonry tenement buildings with sidewalk trees.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing elevation reads as a contextual modern infill, stepping down to street level with a raised white base and black metal fencing.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments organized around a central deep vertical notch.
- Style reading
- Contextual modern residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, metal, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, recessed-balcony, dark-window-surrounds, urban-infill
- Style tags
- modern-infill, contextual, contemporary-brick
- Visual tags
- residential, urban-infill, brick, facade-composition, contextual-architecture
- Geometry
- Rectangular four-story massing with a central recessed vertical balcony bay breaking the red brick facade into two symmetrical wings.
- Facade system
- Red brick masonry veneer with punched windows and dark metal trim frames.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete podium with light-gauge steel framing superstructure.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, fitting contextually within a traditional urban neighborhood fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp shadows from window reveals and creating high contrast across the red brick planes.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and crisp urban residential character.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street setting between historic masonry tenement buildings with sidewalk trees.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing elevation reads as a contextual modern infill, stepping down to street level with a raised white base and black metal fencing.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments organized around a central deep vertical notch.
- Style reading
- Contextual modern residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture