222 Henry Street
A low-angle exterior photograph of a historic red-brick urban facade featuring multi-pane sash windows and a corbelled stringcourse, useful as a material and fenestration precedent for traditional masonry restoration or context-sensitive infill.
- What we like about this project
- The subtle stepping of the brickwork below the top floor window heads forming a decorative shadow line.
Materials
- red-brick
- stone
- glass
- painted-wood
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- double-hung-windows
- corbelled-stringcourse
- masonry-facade
- historic-brickwork
Style tags
- traditional
- historic
- vernacular
- masonry
Visual tags
- historic
- masonry
- facade
- urban-infill
- traditional
- textural
- Geometry
- Upward low-angle perspective showing a load-bearing masonry wall with regularly spaced multi-pane double-hung windows and a decorative corbelled brick cornice line under the parapet.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry wall with inset timber or metal-framed multi-pane double-hung windows and stone sills.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building facade viewed from street level; human scale is registered through the window dimensions and individual brick courses.
- Lighting
- Direct bright sunlight casting sharp shadows beneath window sills and projecting brick details.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, sunny, and heritage-focused, highlighting the tactile qualities of aged brickwork.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting with a clear blue sky framing the historic masonry massing.
- Spatial experience
- The towering brick facade looms overhead against a clear blue sky, emphasizing traditional vertical urban density and historic masonry weight.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of punched window openings offset by horizontal bands of corbelled brickwork.
- Style reading
- Traditional historic masonry architecture
- Program
- Historic multi-family residential or mixed-use urban building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, stone, glass, painted-wood
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, double-hung-windows, corbelled-stringcourse, masonry-facade, historic-brickwork
- Style tags
- traditional, historic, vernacular, masonry
- Visual tags
- historic, masonry, facade, urban-infill, traditional, textural
- Geometry
- Upward low-angle perspective showing a load-bearing masonry wall with regularly spaced multi-pane double-hung windows and a decorative corbelled brick cornice line under the parapet.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry wall with inset timber or metal-framed multi-pane double-hung windows and stone sills.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building facade viewed from street level; human scale is registered through the window dimensions and individual brick courses.
- Lighting
- Direct bright sunlight casting sharp shadows beneath window sills and projecting brick details.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, sunny, and heritage-focused, highlighting the tactile qualities of aged brickwork.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting with a clear blue sky framing the historic masonry massing.
- Spatial experience
- The towering brick facade looms overhead against a clear blue sky, emphasizing traditional vertical urban density and historic masonry weight.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of punched window openings offset by horizontal bands of corbelled brickwork.
- Style reading
- Traditional historic masonry architecture
- Program
- Historic multi-family residential or mixed-use urban building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture