Project 528
A high-rise tower exterior precedent by Handel Architects demonstrating an acute-angled corner glass facade meeting a structured gridded residential elevation.
- What we like about this project
- The dramatic shift from a dark glass sheer curtain wall at the acute apex to a lighter, deeply articulated gridded facade on the wider wings.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- metal-panel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- acute-corner
- glass-curtain-wall
- grid-facade
- high-rise
- project-528
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- commercial
Visual tags
- tower
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- corner-condition
- curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Slender wedge-shaped tower with an acute-angled corner terminating in a glass curtain wall, flanked by a disciplined punched window and balcony grid on the long elevations.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall at the acute corner combined with precast or metal panel framing system integrating recessed balconies and punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and slab construction with perimeter columns supporting unitized facade loads.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower scale set against a pedestrian-oriented streetscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight dusk illumination with soft ambient sky gradient; warm interior lighting emanates from the ground level and select upper windows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, professional twilight atmosphere with crisp architectural lines emphasized by fading daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with multilane roads, crosswalks, traffic signals, street trees, and surrounding lower-scale urban fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The tower commands the urban intersection, its sharp prow acting as a visual anchor while the street-level base engages pedestrians with transparency.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis created by the sharp corner mullions, balanced by the repetitive horizontal and vertical grid of the window and balcony modules.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential high-rise
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, metal-panel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- acute-corner, glass-curtain-wall, grid-facade, high-rise, project-528
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, commercial
- Visual tags
- tower, urban-infill, mixed-use, corner-condition, curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Slender wedge-shaped tower with an acute-angled corner terminating in a glass curtain wall, flanked by a disciplined punched window and balcony grid on the long elevations.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall at the acute corner combined with precast or metal panel framing system integrating recessed balconies and punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and slab construction with perimeter columns supporting unitized facade loads.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower scale set against a pedestrian-oriented streetscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight dusk illumination with soft ambient sky gradient; warm interior lighting emanates from the ground level and select upper windows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, professional twilight atmosphere with crisp architectural lines emphasized by fading daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with multilane roads, crosswalks, traffic signals, street trees, and surrounding lower-scale urban fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The tower commands the urban intersection, its sharp prow acting as a visual anchor while the street-level base engages pedestrians with transparency.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis created by the sharp corner mullions, balanced by the repetitive horizontal and vertical grid of the window and balcony modules.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential high-rise
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture