Symmetric red brick Victorian or Edwardian revival building facade
An exterior facade precedent illustrating classic red brick detailing, rhythmic bay windows, and an ornate Dutch gable.
- What we like about this project
- The complex curves of the Dutch gable paired with delicate corbel brackets supporting the central dormer.
Materials
- red-brick
- timber
- glass
- stone
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- dutch-gable
- bay-windows
- ornate-masonry
Style tags
- historic
- revival
- ornate
- traditional
Visual tags
- historic-facade
- brickwork
- symmetry
- urban-context
- revival-architecture
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a central ornate gable flanked by horizontal cornices and vertically stacked window bays.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry wall with projecting brick corbels, cornices, and recessed multi-pane windows.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story historic urban building facade scaled to pedestrian street viewing.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with clear overhead illumination highlighting the deep masonry reveals and projecting window bays.
- Atmosphere
- Textured, warm, and solidly historic.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape context, showing adjacent historic masonry architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The elaborate masonry creates a dense, textured urban street wall with deep relief and rhythmic window groupings.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict bilateral symmetry with repeating vertical window groupings and horizontal string courses.
- Style reading
- Victorian or Edwardian revival red brick architecture
- Program
- Urban mixed-use or residential tenement building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, timber, glass, stone
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, dutch-gable, bay-windows, ornate-masonry
- Style tags
- historic, revival, ornate, traditional
- Visual tags
- historic-facade, brickwork, symmetry, urban-context, revival-architecture
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a central ornate gable flanked by horizontal cornices and vertically stacked window bays.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry wall with projecting brick corbels, cornices, and recessed multi-pane windows.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story historic urban building facade scaled to pedestrian street viewing.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with clear overhead illumination highlighting the deep masonry reveals and projecting window bays.
- Atmosphere
- Textured, warm, and solidly historic.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape context, showing adjacent historic masonry architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The elaborate masonry creates a dense, textured urban street wall with deep relief and rhythmic window groupings.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict bilateral symmetry with repeating vertical window groupings and horizontal string courses.
- Style reading
- Victorian or Edwardian revival red brick architecture
- Program
- Urban mixed-use or residential tenement building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture