Lotte Gold
An urban corner building precedent utilizing curved streamline moderne massing and continuous ribbon glazing to negotiate a tight intersection.
- What we like about this project
- The smooth, seamless radius of the corner glazing contrasts sharply with the sharp right angles of standard urban intersections.
Materials
- stone-panel
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- curved-corner
- ribbon-windows
- horizontal-banding
- corner-wrap
Style tags
- streamline-moderne
- contemporary-commercial
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-corner
- commercial
- streamline-moderne
- ribbon-glazing
- twilight
- Geometry
- Five-story urban corner building featuring a prominent, rounded curved corner wrapping continuous horizontal window bands and banding panels.
- Facade system
- Curved composite or stone-clad spandrel panels framing continuous horizontal ribbon windows with dark mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with cantilevered or curved corner floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale urban infill commercial building, approximately five stories high relative to the street.
- Lighting
- Twilight urban lighting with long exposure car light trails on wet asphalt reflecting orange and yellow glow onto the lower facade.
- Atmosphere
- A cinematic evening urban scene with glowing warmth emanating from interior windows and wet street reflections.
- Environmental context
- Dense European urban intersection at dusk, flanked by multi-story perimeter block buildings and street infrastructure.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands the urban street intersection, providing a smooth continuous visual transition from one street frontage to the other via the radiused corner.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor-to-floor bands of alternating solid spandrels and continuous glazing rhythmically wrap the sweeping corner radius.
- Style reading
- Streamline Moderne revival commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office and retail building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone-panel, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- curved-corner, ribbon-windows, horizontal-banding, corner-wrap
- Style tags
- streamline-moderne, contemporary-commercial, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-corner, commercial, streamline-moderne, ribbon-glazing, twilight
- Geometry
- Five-story urban corner building featuring a prominent, rounded curved corner wrapping continuous horizontal window bands and banding panels.
- Facade system
- Curved composite or stone-clad spandrel panels framing continuous horizontal ribbon windows with dark mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with cantilevered or curved corner floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale urban infill commercial building, approximately five stories high relative to the street.
- Lighting
- Twilight urban lighting with long exposure car light trails on wet asphalt reflecting orange and yellow glow onto the lower facade.
- Atmosphere
- A cinematic evening urban scene with glowing warmth emanating from interior windows and wet street reflections.
- Environmental context
- Dense European urban intersection at dusk, flanked by multi-story perimeter block buildings and street infrastructure.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands the urban street intersection, providing a smooth continuous visual transition from one street frontage to the other via the radiused corner.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor-to-floor bands of alternating solid spandrels and continuous glazing rhythmically wrap the sweeping corner radius.
- Style reading
- Streamline Moderne revival commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office and retail building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture