2226 3rd Avenue
An exterior street-level rendering of a commercial building featuring stepped stone-clad volumes and setback green terraces, providing a precedent for mid-rise urban infill design.
- What we like about this project
- Substantial stepped terraces integrate extensive planting at multiple mid-rise floor levels.
Materials
- precast-stone
- glass
- metal
- vegetation
Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing
- precast-stone-facade
- punched-windows
- green-roof-terraces
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- urban
Visual tags
- commercial-office
- urban-infill
- stepped-form
- landscape-integration
- street-corner
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with a large lower podium supporting a narrower tower volume, featuring vertical punched window bays across a regular grid.
- Facade system
- Precast stone panel system with inset vertical glazing units and continuous spandrel panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat-plate construction with exterior stone cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story mid-rise commercial tower dominating the immediate streetscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime lighting casting soft diagonal shadows across the urban streetscape and facade vertical reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active urban day scene balancing heavy stone massing with soft rooftop greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with pedestrian crosswalks, neighboring apartment blocks, and city traffic.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner with tall ground-floor retail glazing, transitioning upward through massive stone-clad office floors to accessible landscaped terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical alignment of narrow punched windows creating continuous upward thrust across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-stone, glass, metal, vegetation
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing, precast-stone-facade, punched-windows, green-roof-terraces
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, urban
- Visual tags
- commercial-office, urban-infill, stepped-form, landscape-integration, street-corner
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with a large lower podium supporting a narrower tower volume, featuring vertical punched window bays across a regular grid.
- Facade system
- Precast stone panel system with inset vertical glazing units and continuous spandrel panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat-plate construction with exterior stone cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story mid-rise commercial tower dominating the immediate streetscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime lighting casting soft diagonal shadows across the urban streetscape and facade vertical reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active urban day scene balancing heavy stone massing with soft rooftop greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with pedestrian crosswalks, neighboring apartment blocks, and city traffic.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner with tall ground-floor retail glazing, transitioning upward through massive stone-clad office floors to accessible landscaped terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical alignment of narrow punched windows creating continuous upward thrust across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture