Commercial — JASMINE LAM
A commercial skyscraper and multi-level terraced podium precedent featuring integrated water features and skybridges, suitable for large-scale urban mixed-use studies.
- What we like about this project
- Large exterior media screen integrated flush into the upper podium massing.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
- water
Visual identifiers
- glass-tower
- podium-terraces
- reflecting-pool
- pedestrian-bridge
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- commercial
Visual tags
- commercial
- high-rise
- waterfront
- podium
- mixed-use
- Geometry
- Tall rectilinear glass tower rises behind a terraced, multi-volume podium with angled glass facades and pedestrian skybridges.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall on the tower; angled glazed multi-story storefront systems on the podium.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with central concrete core for the tower; composite steel and concrete for the multi-level podium.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise tower dominating a multi-level pedestrian podium scale.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp reflections on the water surface and uniform highlights across the glass curtain wall.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and expansive corporate waterfront atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting with an expansive reflecting pool in the foreground and surrounding greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The complex opens outward via large water features and elevated walkways, blending public outdoor plazas with commercial podiums.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical louver banding on the tower balanced by horizontal tiered terraces and bridge spans on the podium.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial mixed-use office and retail complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete, water
- Visual identifiers
- glass-tower, podium-terraces, reflecting-pool, pedestrian-bridge
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, commercial
- Visual tags
- commercial, high-rise, waterfront, podium, mixed-use
- Geometry
- Tall rectilinear glass tower rises behind a terraced, multi-volume podium with angled glass facades and pedestrian skybridges.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall on the tower; angled glazed multi-story storefront systems on the podium.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with central concrete core for the tower; composite steel and concrete for the multi-level podium.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise tower dominating a multi-level pedestrian podium scale.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp reflections on the water surface and uniform highlights across the glass curtain wall.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and expansive corporate waterfront atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting with an expansive reflecting pool in the foreground and surrounding greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The complex opens outward via large water features and elevated walkways, blending public outdoor plazas with commercial podiums.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical louver banding on the tower balanced by horizontal tiered terraces and bridge spans on the podium.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial mixed-use office and retail complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture