Exterior street facade of a multi-story brick and stone hotel building
An urban hotel facade precedent combining historic masonry proportions at upper levels with large contemporary glazed storefronts at the ground level.
- What we like about this project
- Contemporary large-plate storefront glazing seamlessly integrates into the heavy historical masonry base.
Materials
- brick
- stone
- glass
- metal
- slate
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- punched-windows
- mansard-roof
- ground-floor-glazing
Style tags
- contextual
- historicist
- urban-infill
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- historicist
- hospitality
- facade-restoration
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Long multi-story linear facade featuring a heavy masonry base, regular punched window bays, and stepped dormer mansard roofs above.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched windows, stone banding, and a mansard roof structure.
- Structural guess
- Masonry and steel hybrid frame with concrete floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Five-plus story urban building facade fronting a wide pedestrian street.
- Lighting
- Direct, low-angle sunlight casting sharp shadows across the facade relief and recessed openings.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly daytime urban atmosphere along a clear public square.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with open public paving and mature street trees along the sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level commercial storefronts establish a pedestrian scale while the upper hotel floors extend a continuous historicist street wall.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical window bays with iron balcony railings creating a steady horizontal rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contextual historicist urban architecture
- Program
- Hotel and commercial retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, stone, glass, metal, slate
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, punched-windows, mansard-roof, ground-floor-glazing
- Style tags
- contextual, historicist, urban-infill
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, historicist, hospitality, facade-restoration, streetscape
- Geometry
- Long multi-story linear facade featuring a heavy masonry base, regular punched window bays, and stepped dormer mansard roofs above.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched windows, stone banding, and a mansard roof structure.
- Structural guess
- Masonry and steel hybrid frame with concrete floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Five-plus story urban building facade fronting a wide pedestrian street.
- Lighting
- Direct, low-angle sunlight casting sharp shadows across the facade relief and recessed openings.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly daytime urban atmosphere along a clear public square.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with open public paving and mature street trees along the sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level commercial storefronts establish a pedestrian scale while the upper hotel floors extend a continuous historicist street wall.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical window bays with iron balcony railings creating a steady horizontal rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contextual historicist urban architecture
- Program
- Hotel and commercial retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture