11 Waverly Street — Kamen Tall Architects P.C.
An exterior facade detail precedent showcasing historicist masonry detailing, including decorative stone corbels, twisted colonnettes, and embedded heraldic shields.
- What we like about this project
- Miniature heraldic shield inserts set flush into the stone pier between window bays.
Materials
- brick
- stone
- glazed-tile
- metal
Visual identifiers
- masonry-cornice
- stone-corbels
- spiral-colonnettes
- heraldic-shields
- brick-facade
Style tags
- historicist
- revival
- ornate
- traditional
Visual tags
- historicist
- ornate
- masonry
- facade-detail
- parapet
- contextual
- Geometry
- An articulated corner tower combining vertical masonry piers, decorative corbel brackets under the cornice, and recessed multi-pane windows.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with precast or carved stone trim, brackets, and parapet coping.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry wall construction with heavy floor or roof parapet buildup.
- Spatial scale
- Upper story and parapet level of a historic or historically-styled masonry building.
- Lighting
- Warm morning sunlight grazing the facade from the right, casting sharp shadows underneath the stone corbels.
- Atmosphere
- Formal, dignified, and tactile under bright oblique sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Clear blue sky backdrop, suggesting an urban context viewed from below.
- Spatial experience
- The composition draws the eye upward to the heavy bracketed roofline, emphasizing vertical proportion and masonry depth against the sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm set by repeating multi-pane windows framed between spiral-carved colonnettes and punctuated by shields.
- Style reading
- Historicist revival masonry architecture
- Program
- Urban mixed-use or institutional building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, stone, glazed-tile, metal
- Visual identifiers
- masonry-cornice, stone-corbels, spiral-colonnettes, heraldic-shields, brick-facade
- Style tags
- historicist, revival, ornate, traditional
- Visual tags
- historicist, ornate, masonry, facade-detail, parapet, contextual
- Geometry
- An articulated corner tower combining vertical masonry piers, decorative corbel brackets under the cornice, and recessed multi-pane windows.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with precast or carved stone trim, brackets, and parapet coping.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry wall construction with heavy floor or roof parapet buildup.
- Spatial scale
- Upper story and parapet level of a historic or historically-styled masonry building.
- Lighting
- Warm morning sunlight grazing the facade from the right, casting sharp shadows underneath the stone corbels.
- Atmosphere
- Formal, dignified, and tactile under bright oblique sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Clear blue sky backdrop, suggesting an urban context viewed from below.
- Spatial experience
- The composition draws the eye upward to the heavy bracketed roofline, emphasizing vertical proportion and masonry depth against the sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm set by repeating multi-pane windows framed between spiral-carved colonnettes and punctuated by shields.
- Style reading
- Historicist revival masonry architecture
- Program
- Urban mixed-use or institutional building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture