3000_IG_2001_210225-Building
An urban facade precedent by Henley Halebrown demonstrating stepped red brick massing, regular punched window grids, and a porous ground-floor arcade.
- What we like about this project
- The uppermost floor dissolves into an open colonnade or pergola-like brick frame against the sky.
Materials
- brick
- mortar
- glass
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- stepped-massing
- punched-windows
- ground-floor-arches
- open-crown
Style tags
- contemporary
- brick
- monumental
- rationalist
Visual tags
- brick-architecture
- urban-block
- stepped-profile
- arcade
- fenestration
- Geometry
- Stepped massing rises to a taller central tower, featuring an orthogonal grid of recessed square windows and an open-framed crown.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad red brick masonry with deep punched window reveals and an open colonnade top.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick facade cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story urban residential or mixed-use block, with ground-floor arches scaled to human height.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight with gentle overhead sun casting subtle vertical shadows within the recessed window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Orderly, robust, and grounded, combining heavy masonry mass with airy open-air crown elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape with mature street trees and a paved sidewalk at the base, flanked by adjacent building volumes.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a monumental yet porous urban face, grounded by deep ground-level arcades that invite pedestrian passage.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid alignment interrupted by a rhythmic sequence of monumental ground-floor arches.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic brick architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential or institutional building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, mortar, glass
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, stepped-massing, punched-windows, ground-floor-arches, open-crown
- Style tags
- contemporary, brick, monumental, rationalist
- Visual tags
- brick-architecture, urban-block, stepped-profile, arcade, fenestration
- Geometry
- Stepped massing rises to a taller central tower, featuring an orthogonal grid of recessed square windows and an open-framed crown.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad red brick masonry with deep punched window reveals and an open colonnade top.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick facade cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story urban residential or mixed-use block, with ground-floor arches scaled to human height.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight with gentle overhead sun casting subtle vertical shadows within the recessed window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Orderly, robust, and grounded, combining heavy masonry mass with airy open-air crown elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape with mature street trees and a paved sidewalk at the base, flanked by adjacent building volumes.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a monumental yet porous urban face, grounded by deep ground-level arcades that invite pedestrian passage.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid alignment interrupted by a rhythmic sequence of monumental ground-floor arches.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic brick architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential or institutional building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture