11 Waverly Street — Kamen Tall Architects P.C.
An urban residential facade precedent showcasing symmetrical masonry composition, decorative period detailing, and active ground-floor retail integration.
- What we like about this project
- Individual window-mounted air conditioning units punctuate nearly every window bay, creating an accidental texture across the facade.
Materials
- brick
- stone
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- punched-windows
- ornate-cornice
- retail-base
- symmetrical-fenestration
Style tags
- traditional
- historicist
- urban-vernacular
Visual tags
- historic-preservation
- urban-infill
- residential
- street-wall
- masonry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-story street facade featuring a balanced arrangement of punched window openings across nine vertical bays, bracketed by ornate stone cornices at the crown and base.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry wall with punched single-hung windows and decorative cast stone elements.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry wall construction with steel or concrete floor framing.
- Spatial scale
- Ten-story residential building scale, with commercial storefronts occupying the double-height ground level.
- Lighting
- Even, diffuse daylight illuminating the flat face of the building with subtle shading in window reveals and air conditioning units.
- Atmosphere
- Classic metropolitan streetscape with a dense, grounded masonry presence.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill streetscape flanked by neighboring historic and modern multi-story buildings, with street-level retail and pedestrians.
- Spatial experience
- The towering brick facade establishes a strong urban street wall presence, anchored by human-scaled retail storefronts and an arched central entrance canopy at the ground level.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid rhythm formed by repeating vertical window bays and horizontal belt courses.
- Style reading
- Traditional urban residential revival architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use multi-family residential with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, stone, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, punched-windows, ornate-cornice, retail-base, symmetrical-fenestration
- Style tags
- traditional, historicist, urban-vernacular
- Visual tags
- historic-preservation, urban-infill, residential, street-wall, masonry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-story street facade featuring a balanced arrangement of punched window openings across nine vertical bays, bracketed by ornate stone cornices at the crown and base.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry wall with punched single-hung windows and decorative cast stone elements.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry wall construction with steel or concrete floor framing.
- Spatial scale
- Ten-story residential building scale, with commercial storefronts occupying the double-height ground level.
- Lighting
- Even, diffuse daylight illuminating the flat face of the building with subtle shading in window reveals and air conditioning units.
- Atmosphere
- Classic metropolitan streetscape with a dense, grounded masonry presence.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill streetscape flanked by neighboring historic and modern multi-story buildings, with street-level retail and pedestrians.
- Spatial experience
- The towering brick facade establishes a strong urban street wall presence, anchored by human-scaled retail storefronts and an arched central entrance canopy at the ground level.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid rhythm formed by repeating vertical window bays and horizontal belt courses.
- Style reading
- Traditional urban residential revival architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use multi-family residential with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture