Category:Hospitality
A high-rise hospitality tower precedent by Marin Architects demonstrating a two-part facade strategy with a transparent glazed base and an articulated, louvered upper volume accented by perimeter lighting.
- What we like about this project
- Linear light strips are recessed directly into the horizontal facade frames, creating glowing banding around the upper stories.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
- led-lighting
Visual identifiers
- glazed-curtain-wall
- vertical-louvers
- illuminated-slab-edges
- tiered-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- high-tech
Visual tags
- high-rise
- hospitality
- curtain-wall
- night-lighting
- contemporary-tower
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower massing with a clear transition from a fully glazed lower curtain wall to a heavily articulated upper zone featuring vertical louvers and illuminated horizontal shadow gaps.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with operable louvers and integrated lighting coves at floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter columns supporting a unitized curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story high-rise tower scale viewed from a low upward angle.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast blue hour illumination, enhanced by crisp linear LED lighting embedded within the horizontal slab edges and vertical reveals of the upper floors.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, luminous, and commanding against the twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Set against a clear blue-to-grey dusk sky with no surrounding urban context visible.
- Spatial experience
- The tower reads as an imposing vertical block from below, where the shift in facade treatment clearly distinguishes the lower podium or public zones from the upper accommodation floors.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid of vertical window mullions at the base transitioning into rhythmic alternating louvers and glazing at the crown.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Hospitality hotel tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel, led-lighting
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-curtain-wall, vertical-louvers, illuminated-slab-edges, tiered-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, high-tech
- Visual tags
- high-rise, hospitality, curtain-wall, night-lighting, contemporary-tower
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower massing with a clear transition from a fully glazed lower curtain wall to a heavily articulated upper zone featuring vertical louvers and illuminated horizontal shadow gaps.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with operable louvers and integrated lighting coves at floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter columns supporting a unitized curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story high-rise tower scale viewed from a low upward angle.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast blue hour illumination, enhanced by crisp linear LED lighting embedded within the horizontal slab edges and vertical reveals of the upper floors.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, luminous, and commanding against the twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Set against a clear blue-to-grey dusk sky with no surrounding urban context visible.
- Spatial experience
- The tower reads as an imposing vertical block from below, where the shift in facade treatment clearly distinguishes the lower podium or public zones from the upper accommodation floors.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid of vertical window mullions at the base transitioning into rhythmic alternating louvers and glazing at the crown.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Hospitality hotel tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture