65 Gresham Street
An urban commercial office precedent featuring a dignified stone-clad base and a stepped, faceted glazed crown incorporating planted terraces.
- What we like about this project
- The transition from traditional punched stone facade to highly angular, crystalline stepped penthouse levels.
Materials
- stone
- glass
- metal
- planting
Visual identifiers
- faceted-crown
- stepped-terraces
- stone-cladding
- green-roofs
- corner-infill
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- stepped
- contextual
Visual tags
- commercial-office
- stepped-massing
- urban-infill
- terraced-roof
- faceted-glass
- Geometry
- Rectangular urban infill base transitioning into a stepped, faceted, folded glass and metal crown with multiple green roof terraces.
- Facade system
- Punched window stone panel curtain wall on lower floors and faceted structural glass curtain wall on upper terraced levels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with composite floor slabs and a lighter steel truss or column grid at the upper faceted crown.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial office block scaled to a dense urban street network, approximately nine stories total.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft directional shadows across the stone facade and highlighted crown glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling, green-infused urban commercial atmosphere balancing corporate rigor with natural terraces.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban financial district context with narrow multi-story streets, neighboring office blocks, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors a dense urban street corner, stepping back at upper levels to reveal planted terraces and reduce apparent mass.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays on the lower stone floors transitioning to an irregular faceted crystalline rhythm at the crown.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial hybrid massing
- Program
- Commercial office building with retail ground floor
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, glass, metal, planting
- Visual identifiers
- faceted-crown, stepped-terraces, stone-cladding, green-roofs, corner-infill
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, stepped, contextual
- Visual tags
- commercial-office, stepped-massing, urban-infill, terraced-roof, faceted-glass
- Geometry
- Rectangular urban infill base transitioning into a stepped, faceted, folded glass and metal crown with multiple green roof terraces.
- Facade system
- Punched window stone panel curtain wall on lower floors and faceted structural glass curtain wall on upper terraced levels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with composite floor slabs and a lighter steel truss or column grid at the upper faceted crown.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial office block scaled to a dense urban street network, approximately nine stories total.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft directional shadows across the stone facade and highlighted crown glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling, green-infused urban commercial atmosphere balancing corporate rigor with natural terraces.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban financial district context with narrow multi-story streets, neighboring office blocks, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors a dense urban street corner, stepping back at upper levels to reveal planted terraces and reduce apparent mass.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays on the lower stone floors transitioning to an irregular faceted crystalline rhythm at the crown.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial hybrid massing
- Program
- Commercial office building with retail ground floor
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture