55 Jordan - Featured Project
An aerial precedent of an urban mixed-use high-rise by MHS Architecture, demonstrating podium-tower massing strategies within a traditional low-rise fabric.
- What we like about this project
- The distinct split in facade treatment between the traditional brick podium and the crisp white grid of the tower above.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal-panel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-podium
- window-grid
- stepped-massing
- corner-lot
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- commercial
Visual tags
- high-rise
- mixed-use
- urban-infill
- podium-tower
- contemporary
- Geometry
- A stepped massing configuration comprising a multi-story base podium topped by a taller, grid-organized residential tower.
- Facade system
- Combination of unitized glass curtain wall and punched windows set within a masonry and metal panel system.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with shear core
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower dominating the mid-rise urban streetscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime lighting with soft overhead clouds casting gentle shadows across the urban context.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and active urban day lighting setting off a dense commercial neighborhood.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a mix of low-rise commercial buildings, historic brick structures, and residential neighborhood fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands the street corner, scaling down via the brick podium to match surrounding neighborhood heights while rising vertically for upper views.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal break at the terrace roofline separating the heavy masonry podium from the lighter gridded upper tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential tower with ground floor retail
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal-panel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-podium, window-grid, stepped-massing, corner-lot
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, commercial
- Visual tags
- high-rise, mixed-use, urban-infill, podium-tower, contemporary
- Geometry
- A stepped massing configuration comprising a multi-story base podium topped by a taller, grid-organized residential tower.
- Facade system
- Combination of unitized glass curtain wall and punched windows set within a masonry and metal panel system.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with shear core
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower dominating the mid-rise urban streetscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime lighting with soft overhead clouds casting gentle shadows across the urban context.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and active urban day lighting setting off a dense commercial neighborhood.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a mix of low-rise commercial buildings, historic brick structures, and residential neighborhood fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands the street corner, scaling down via the brick podium to match surrounding neighborhood heights while rising vertically for upper views.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal break at the terrace roofline separating the heavy masonry podium from the lighter gridded upper tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential tower with ground floor retail
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture