Worm's-eye view of a monumental skyscraper with stepped
A high-rise exterior precedent showcasing sculptural stepped massing and a heavy structural skybridge, useful for monumental urban tower studies.
- What we like about this project
- The central void bridged between two distinct massing towers emphasizes the complex geometry.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- stepped-slabs
- cantilever
- skybridge
- monolithic-concrete
Style tags
- contemporary
- sculptural
- monumental
Visual tags
- high-rise
- brutalist-inspired
- monumental
- geometric
- cantilever
- Geometry
- Tower volumes step inward and outward symmetrically, linked by a heavy overhead bridge element, viewed from a sharp upward perspective.
- Facade system
- Precast or cast-in-place concrete banding with continuous recessed ribbon glazing.
- Structural guess
- Heavy concrete frame with large cantilevers and a transfer truss bridge.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise scale, towering numerous stories above the viewpoint.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through dramatic clouds, casting deep shade on the underside of the stepped cantilevers.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and imposing, defined by heavy shadow play against a bright sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban sky background framing the monolithic structure.
- Spatial experience
- The towering angular masses create an intense feeling of vertical canyon pressure and heroic scale overhead.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor plate bands repeat in an aggressive stepped rhythm up the facade.
- Style reading
- Sculptural contemporary high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use high-rise
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-slabs, cantilever, skybridge, monolithic-concrete
- Style tags
- contemporary, sculptural, monumental
- Visual tags
- high-rise, brutalist-inspired, monumental, geometric, cantilever
- Geometry
- Tower volumes step inward and outward symmetrically, linked by a heavy overhead bridge element, viewed from a sharp upward perspective.
- Facade system
- Precast or cast-in-place concrete banding with continuous recessed ribbon glazing.
- Structural guess
- Heavy concrete frame with large cantilevers and a transfer truss bridge.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise scale, towering numerous stories above the viewpoint.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through dramatic clouds, casting deep shade on the underside of the stepped cantilevers.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and imposing, defined by heavy shadow play against a bright sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban sky background framing the monolithic structure.
- Spatial experience
- The towering angular masses create an intense feeling of vertical canyon pressure and heroic scale overhead.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor plate bands repeat in an aggressive stepped rhythm up the facade.
- Style reading
- Sculptural contemporary high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use high-rise
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture