9 East 97th Street — Kamen Tall Architects P.C.
An exterior facade precedent of a historic urban residential building featuring intricate stone ornamentation and curved bay projections, useful for facade restoration and classical urban design studies.
- What we like about this project
- Intricately detailed carved scrollwork and friezes integrated directly into the window lintels and spandrels.
Materials
- buff-brick
- limestone
- cast-stone
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- curved-bays
- ornate-stone-carving
- punched-windows
- historic-masonry
- entry-canopy
Style tags
- classical
- historic
- ornate
- traditional
Visual tags
- historic-preservation
- residential
- facade-restoration
- urban-context
- classical-detailing
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-story apartment facade featuring prominent curved projecting bays on the left and right flanks, flanking a flat central bay with regular punched window openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing masonry wall with carved stone cladding at lower levels and buff brick above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with steel floor joists typical of early 20th-century urban architecture.
- Spatial scale
- Seven-story urban residential building frontage, scaled to traditional neighborhood fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows across the deep window reveals, carved lintels, and decorative friezes.
- Atmosphere
- Grand yet welcoming historic urban character defined by weathered masonry textures and bright sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape with neighboring historic masonry buildings, mature street trees, and a sidewalk foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level entry porch establishes a formal, human-scaled threshold beneath carved stonework, transitioning into the grand vertical mass above.
- Composition rhythm
- Tripartite vertical organization with balanced side bays flanking a central vertical axis, punctuated by horizontal stone belt courses.
- Style reading
- Classical revival urban apartment facade
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, limestone, cast-stone, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- curved-bays, ornate-stone-carving, punched-windows, historic-masonry, entry-canopy
- Style tags
- classical, historic, ornate, traditional
- Visual tags
- historic-preservation, residential, facade-restoration, urban-context, classical-detailing
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-story apartment facade featuring prominent curved projecting bays on the left and right flanks, flanking a flat central bay with regular punched window openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing masonry wall with carved stone cladding at lower levels and buff brick above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with steel floor joists typical of early 20th-century urban architecture.
- Spatial scale
- Seven-story urban residential building frontage, scaled to traditional neighborhood fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows across the deep window reveals, carved lintels, and decorative friezes.
- Atmosphere
- Grand yet welcoming historic urban character defined by weathered masonry textures and bright sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape with neighboring historic masonry buildings, mature street trees, and a sidewalk foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level entry porch establishes a formal, human-scaled threshold beneath carved stonework, transitioning into the grand vertical mass above.
- Composition rhythm
- Tripartite vertical organization with balanced side bays flanking a central vertical axis, punctuated by horizontal stone belt courses.
- Style reading
- Classical revival urban apartment facade
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture