Exterior corner view of a multi-story urban commercial tower with
2023
An urban office tower precedent showcasing how deep vertical precast fins add rhythm and solar shading to a glazed high-rise curtain wall at a prominent street corner.
- What we like about this project
- The vertical fins project significantly past the plane of the glass, creating dramatic relief that changes dynamically with the sun's angle.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- vertical-fins
- ribbon-glazing
- corner-massing
- urban-high-rise
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- rationalist
Visual tags
- commercial-tower
- urban-infill
- curtain-wall
- street-corner
- precast-fins
- Geometry
- A stepped massing configuration anchored at a prominent urban street corner, utilizing vertical structural fin projections that segment the glass curtain wall grid.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall interspersed with projecting full-height vertical precast concrete fins.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter columns supporting floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial high-rise tower, approximately fifteen stories, establishing a substantial vertical presence at the street corner.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sunlight casting long warm highlights across the eastern facade with deep shadows caught between the projecting vertical fins.
- Atmosphere
- Professional, crisp, and solidly anchored in a bustling downtown environment under late afternoon light.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with adjacent historic and contemporary high-rise towers and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands the intersection, creating a sharp urban edge with a transparent, double-height ground floor engaging directly with the street sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical rhythm established by regularly spaced white precast fins contrasting with dark horizontal spandrel bands and glass.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-concrete, glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-fins, ribbon-glazing, corner-massing, urban-high-rise
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, rationalist
- Visual tags
- commercial-tower, urban-infill, curtain-wall, street-corner, precast-fins
- Geometry
- A stepped massing configuration anchored at a prominent urban street corner, utilizing vertical structural fin projections that segment the glass curtain wall grid.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall interspersed with projecting full-height vertical precast concrete fins.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter columns supporting floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial high-rise tower, approximately fifteen stories, establishing a substantial vertical presence at the street corner.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sunlight casting long warm highlights across the eastern facade with deep shadows caught between the projecting vertical fins.
- Atmosphere
- Professional, crisp, and solidly anchored in a bustling downtown environment under late afternoon light.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with adjacent historic and contemporary high-rise towers and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands the intersection, creating a sharp urban edge with a transparent, double-height ground floor engaging directly with the street sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical rhythm established by regularly spaced white precast fins contrasting with dark horizontal spandrel bands and glass.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture