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An aerial precedent for slender high-rise massing and gridded facade design within a dense urban skyline.
- What we like about this project
- The textured, vertically articulated crown contrasts with the repeating window grid below.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- slender-tower
- gridded-facade
- crowned-top
- urban-skyline
Style tags
- contemporary
- skyscraper
- urban
Visual tags
- high-rise
- waterfront
- sunset-lighting
- tower
- metropolitan
- Geometry
- Slender tower volume with a gridded facade and a distinct crown element, rising prominently above a dense urban context.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall with expressed vertical and horizontal mullions forming a uniform grid.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite core and frame construction suitable for slender super-talls.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise scale towering over surrounding mid- and high-rise structures.
- Lighting
- Warm sunset backlight casting long shadows and glowing reflections across the tower and urban fabric.
- Atmosphere
- Serene yet imposing twilight glow over a dense metropolis.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban waterfront context featuring a high-rise skyline and adjacent river.
- Spatial experience
- The tower commands an elevated viewpoint, visually anchoring the dense metropolitan skyline across a body of water.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid pattern on the facade repeating uniformly across floors, topped with a rhythmic crown.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tall-building architecture
- Program
- Residential or mixed-use high-rise tower
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- slender-tower, gridded-facade, crowned-top, urban-skyline
- Style tags
- contemporary, skyscraper, urban
- Visual tags
- high-rise, waterfront, sunset-lighting, tower, metropolitan
- Geometry
- Slender tower volume with a gridded facade and a distinct crown element, rising prominently above a dense urban context.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall with expressed vertical and horizontal mullions forming a uniform grid.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite core and frame construction suitable for slender super-talls.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise scale towering over surrounding mid- and high-rise structures.
- Lighting
- Warm sunset backlight casting long shadows and glowing reflections across the tower and urban fabric.
- Atmosphere
- Serene yet imposing twilight glow over a dense metropolis.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban waterfront context featuring a high-rise skyline and adjacent river.
- Spatial experience
- The tower commands an elevated viewpoint, visually anchoring the dense metropolitan skyline across a body of water.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid pattern on the facade repeating uniformly across floors, topped with a rhythmic crown.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tall-building architecture
- Program
- Residential or mixed-use high-rise tower
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture