660 Lexington
A high-rise residential tower precedent featuring a refined cast stone structural grid, curved corner glazing, and a tiered crown.
- What we like about this project
- Curved corner glazing seamlessly transitions the flat grid facade into an open, panoramic urban view.
Materials
- cast-stone
- glass
- metal
- bronze-accents
Visual identifiers
- curved-corner-windows
- stone-grid-facade
- stepped-crown
- recessed-balconies
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- elegant
Visual tags
- residential-tower
- urban-infill
- contextual
- high-rise
- stone-cladding
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower mass with a subtly articulated grid facade, stepping back at upper tiers and featuring curved glazing wrapping the street corner.
- Facade system
- Unitized stone-clad grid with floor-to-ceiling vision glass and integrated curved corner elements.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with flat plate slabs and shear wall core.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential tower scaling up from a multi-story retail podium at the base.
- Lighting
- Soft sunset lighting with warm golden hour tones casting gentle highlights on the facade and deep shadows in the reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting urban twilight ambiance highlighting rich material textures and glowing interior windows.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with surrounding historic and contemporary mid-rise and high-rise context, framed by foreground tree foliage.
- Spatial experience
- From the street level, the building reads as an elegant urban presence, with continuous vertical piers drawing the eye upward while corner curves soften the massing.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical bays intersected by horizontal floor slabs, creating a balanced and orderly grid across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and retail tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- cast-stone, glass, metal, bronze-accents
- Visual identifiers
- curved-corner-windows, stone-grid-facade, stepped-crown, recessed-balconies
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, elegant
- Visual tags
- residential-tower, urban-infill, contextual, high-rise, stone-cladding
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower mass with a subtly articulated grid facade, stepping back at upper tiers and featuring curved glazing wrapping the street corner.
- Facade system
- Unitized stone-clad grid with floor-to-ceiling vision glass and integrated curved corner elements.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with flat plate slabs and shear wall core.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential tower scaling up from a multi-story retail podium at the base.
- Lighting
- Soft sunset lighting with warm golden hour tones casting gentle highlights on the facade and deep shadows in the reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting urban twilight ambiance highlighting rich material textures and glowing interior windows.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with surrounding historic and contemporary mid-rise and high-rise context, framed by foreground tree foliage.
- Spatial experience
- From the street level, the building reads as an elegant urban presence, with continuous vertical piers drawing the eye upward while corner curves soften the massing.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical bays intersected by horizontal floor slabs, creating a balanced and orderly grid across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and retail tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture