47 Great Marlborough Street — Morrow + Lorraine
An exterior street facade precedent illustrating the restoration and integration of historic urban townhouses with activated retail ground floors, designed by Morrow + Lorraine.
- What we like about this project
- Delicate wrought-iron balconies and decorative fanlights punctuate the stark white rendered facade.
Materials
- brick
- stucco
- timber
- slate
- stone
- iron
Visual identifiers
- historic-facade
- townhouse-restoration
- punched-windows
- ground-floor-retail
Style tags
- historic
- traditional
- urban
Visual tags
- historic-preservation
- urban-infill
- streetscape
- commercial-facade
- facade-restoration
- Geometry
- A linear street-front elevation comprising a series of distinct historic townhouse facades with varied vertical fenestration rhythms, stepped parapets, and cornices.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick and rendered masonry walls with traditional timber-framed punched windows and slate Mansard roofs.
- Structural guess
- Historic load-bearing masonry walls with timber floor diaphragms
- Spatial scale
- Four- to five-story historic urban scale maintaining traditional street frontage dimensions.
- Lighting
- Even daylight with clear directional sunlight casting crisp shadows beneath cornices and reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, authentic urban street atmosphere combining historic masonry textures with active pedestrian engagement.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape with neighboring historic and modern infill structures, sidewalks, and street furniture.
- Spatial experience
- From across the street, the continuous building line frames the urban pedestrian corridor while individual storefronts and entrances engage the sidewalk at human scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical window alignments and distinct party-wall vertical divisions across multiple facades.
- Style reading
- Historic vernacular restoration with contemporary urban integration
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and retail with upper-level spaces
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, stucco, timber, slate, stone, iron
- Visual identifiers
- historic-facade, townhouse-restoration, punched-windows, ground-floor-retail
- Style tags
- historic, traditional, urban
- Visual tags
- historic-preservation, urban-infill, streetscape, commercial-facade, facade-restoration
- Geometry
- A linear street-front elevation comprising a series of distinct historic townhouse facades with varied vertical fenestration rhythms, stepped parapets, and cornices.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick and rendered masonry walls with traditional timber-framed punched windows and slate Mansard roofs.
- Structural guess
- Historic load-bearing masonry walls with timber floor diaphragms
- Spatial scale
- Four- to five-story historic urban scale maintaining traditional street frontage dimensions.
- Lighting
- Even daylight with clear directional sunlight casting crisp shadows beneath cornices and reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, authentic urban street atmosphere combining historic masonry textures with active pedestrian engagement.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape with neighboring historic and modern infill structures, sidewalks, and street furniture.
- Spatial experience
- From across the street, the continuous building line frames the urban pedestrian corridor while individual storefronts and entrances engage the sidewalk at human scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical window alignments and distinct party-wall vertical divisions across multiple facades.
- Style reading
- Historic vernacular restoration with contemporary urban integration
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and retail with upper-level spaces
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture