425 Summit Avenue - Featured Project
An aerial precedent demonstrating how a slender high-rise tower integrates into a lower-scale historic urban fabric through stepped podium volumes.
- What we like about this project
- Construction yellow waterproofing boards remain exposed on the curved corner podium volume.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- brick
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- glazed-tower
- podium-stepped-massing
- urban-intersection
- high-rise
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- high-rise
Visual tags
- high-rise
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- contextual-integration
- tower
- Geometry
- A slender glazed tower steps down through articulated podium blocks, anchoring a complex urban intersection with varied massing heights.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical vision glass panels.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and flat slab frame.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower dominating low-to-mid-rise urban surroundings.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp shadows across the tower facade and surrounding urban rooftops.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, crisp daylight emphasizing the verticality of the new tower against a busy city backdrop.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection surrounded by mid-rise brick and stone buildings under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The composition dominates the foreground intersection, creating a vertical focal point that looms over surrounding lower-density historic fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid of glass and mullions contrasted with the horizontal window bands of surrounding historic buildings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential tower with podium retail or parking.
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, brick, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-tower, podium-stepped-massing, urban-intersection, high-rise
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, high-rise
- Visual tags
- high-rise, urban-infill, mixed-use, contextual-integration, tower
- Geometry
- A slender glazed tower steps down through articulated podium blocks, anchoring a complex urban intersection with varied massing heights.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical vision glass panels.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and flat slab frame.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower dominating low-to-mid-rise urban surroundings.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp shadows across the tower facade and surrounding urban rooftops.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, crisp daylight emphasizing the verticality of the new tower against a busy city backdrop.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection surrounded by mid-rise brick and stone buildings under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The composition dominates the foreground intersection, creating a vertical focal point that looms over surrounding lower-density historic fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid of glass and mullions contrasted with the horizontal window bands of surrounding historic buildings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential tower with podium retail or parking.
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture