Project 249
An exterior precedent showing a slender, grid-organized brick high-rise tower with a stepped crown in a dense urban setting.
- What we like about this project
- The slender massing shifts proportions via a stepped rooftop mechanical penthouse volume.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- brick-cladding
- grid-facade
- stepped-crown
- high-rise-tower
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- skyscraper
- urban-context
- masonry-facade
- grid-system
- commercial-residential
- Geometry
- Slender rectangular tower massing with a stepped crown and a multi-story podium wrapping the base, set within a dense urban grid.
- Facade system
- Unitized window wall with masonry-clad column and spandrel framing elements.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and slab structure designed for high-rise wind loads.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower scale, rising multiple dozens of stories above the surrounding streetscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sun casting clear vertical highlights and soft shadows across the grid facade.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, urban, and commanding daylight presence within a bustling city skyline.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban skyscraper district with neighboring glass and masonry high-rises and busy street traffic below.
- Spatial experience
- The tall volume projects strongly against the sky, anchoring the corner of the urban block while relating in scale to surrounding towers.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid formed by masonry piers and punched window modules across the entire shaft.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use high-rise residential or commercial tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- brick-cladding, grid-facade, stepped-crown, high-rise-tower
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- skyscraper, urban-context, masonry-facade, grid-system, commercial-residential
- Geometry
- Slender rectangular tower massing with a stepped crown and a multi-story podium wrapping the base, set within a dense urban grid.
- Facade system
- Unitized window wall with masonry-clad column and spandrel framing elements.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and slab structure designed for high-rise wind loads.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower scale, rising multiple dozens of stories above the surrounding streetscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sun casting clear vertical highlights and soft shadows across the grid facade.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, urban, and commanding daylight presence within a bustling city skyline.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban skyscraper district with neighboring glass and masonry high-rises and busy street traffic below.
- Spatial experience
- The tall volume projects strongly against the sky, anchoring the corner of the urban block while relating in scale to surrounding towers.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid formed by masonry piers and punched window modules across the entire shaft.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use high-rise residential or commercial tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture