Nine on the Hudson - Featured Project
A large-scale multi-family residential precedent demonstrating stepped terraces, a dark brick retail or amenity podium, and extensive glazing oriented toward the waterfront.
- What we like about this project
- An elevated swimming pool and landscaped roof garden sit atop the dark brick podium, bridging the stepped and tower volumes.
Materials
- glass
- stucco
- dark-brick
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- stepped-terraces
- glass-curtain-wall
- dark-brick-podium
- podium-pool
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- residential
Visual tags
- multi-family
- terraced
- waterfront
- podium
- balconies
- Geometry
- Multi-wing residential complex featuring stepped terraced setbacks on one volume and gridded glass towers, anchored by a single-story dark brick podium with expansive glazing.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with stucco finish on stepped balconies and dark masonry on the base.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with flat plate slabs and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential scale, spanning multiple blocks with a substantial height profile.
- Lighting
- Bright afternoon daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the vertical glass bays and horizontal terrace edges.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly, and upscale urban residential density with integrated green amenities.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting with surrounding roadways, landscaped sidewalk buffers, and neighboring high-rise residential fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The complex steps down toward the street and waterfront context, creating layered outdoor amenity terraces at multiple elevations.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical glass bays intersect with strong horizontal white terrace bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment complex with podium amenities
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, stucco, dark-brick, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-terraces, glass-curtain-wall, dark-brick-podium, podium-pool
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, residential
- Visual tags
- multi-family, terraced, waterfront, podium, balconies
- Geometry
- Multi-wing residential complex featuring stepped terraced setbacks on one volume and gridded glass towers, anchored by a single-story dark brick podium with expansive glazing.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with stucco finish on stepped balconies and dark masonry on the base.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with flat plate slabs and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential scale, spanning multiple blocks with a substantial height profile.
- Lighting
- Bright afternoon daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the vertical glass bays and horizontal terrace edges.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly, and upscale urban residential density with integrated green amenities.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting with surrounding roadways, landscaped sidewalk buffers, and neighboring high-rise residential fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The complex steps down toward the street and waterfront context, creating layered outdoor amenity terraces at multiple elevations.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical glass bays intersect with strong horizontal white terrace bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment complex with podium amenities
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture