Google Store
A commercial storefront precedent featuring a dark monochromatic brick facade and a transparent central portal, useful for urban retail design studies.
- What we like about this project
- The glowing logo and soft uplighting highlight the texture of the painted brick facade at dusk.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- dark-brick-facade
- glazed-storefront-entrance
- illuminated-signage
- recessed-portal
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- minimal
Visual tags
- commercial
- retail
- storefront
- urban-infill
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Symmetrical single-story storefront massing with a central recessed glazed entrance flanked by dark brick piers and secondary doors.
- Facade system
- Painted masonry load-bearing wall with aluminum-framed storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with a structural steel storefront lintel system.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial scale suited for pedestrian street engagement.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions; warm interior display lighting contrasts against the cool dusk ambient light and illuminated exterior logo signage.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and sleek, balancing dark monolithic massing with warm interior invitation.
- Environmental context
- Urban sidewalk context with passing pedestrians, showing a low-rise commercial infill condition.
- Spatial experience
- The deep storefront reveal and expansive transparent entry invite the pedestrian from the sidewalk directly into the retail floor.
- Composition rhythm
- A tripartite composition with solid dark brick wings framing a transparent central opening.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial retail architecture
- Program
- Retail store
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- dark-brick-facade, glazed-storefront-entrance, illuminated-signage, recessed-portal
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, minimal
- Visual tags
- commercial, retail, storefront, urban-infill, contemporary
- Geometry
- Symmetrical single-story storefront massing with a central recessed glazed entrance flanked by dark brick piers and secondary doors.
- Facade system
- Painted masonry load-bearing wall with aluminum-framed storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with a structural steel storefront lintel system.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story commercial scale suited for pedestrian street engagement.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions; warm interior display lighting contrasts against the cool dusk ambient light and illuminated exterior logo signage.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and sleek, balancing dark monolithic massing with warm interior invitation.
- Environmental context
- Urban sidewalk context with passing pedestrians, showing a low-rise commercial infill condition.
- Spatial experience
- The deep storefront reveal and expansive transparent entry invite the pedestrian from the sidewalk directly into the retail floor.
- Composition rhythm
- A tripartite composition with solid dark brick wings framing a transparent central opening.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial retail architecture
- Program
- Retail store
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture