Manhattan West Development
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An exterior precedent showing twin glass commercial towers with rounded corners and seamless unitized glazing within a dense urban fabric.
- What we like about this project
- The curved glass corners create seamless continuous reflections that visually soften the massive rectangular block.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- twin-towers
- glass-curtain-wall
- rounded-corners
- high-rise
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- high-tech
Visual tags
- commercial-tower
- curtain-wall
- urban-density
- corporate
- skyscraper
- Geometry
- Twin rectangular high-rise towers featuring rounded corners and continuous flush unitized curtain walls, rising vertically from a dense urban podium base.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with rounded corner assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Composite steel and concrete core with perimeter framing.
- Spatial scale
- Colossal urban skyscraper scale, dwarfing the surrounding historic and commercial fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight with soft reflections and scattered clouds mirrored across the glazed tower surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, corporate, and monumental under a vast urban sky.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban high-rise context in Manhattan, surrounded by mixed-scale mid-rise and high-rise commercial buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The towers loom massively from an elevated perspective, their tall reflective planes mirroring neighboring structures and open sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis created by continuous mullions and soaring glass reflections against a dense urban foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office towers
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- twin-towers, glass-curtain-wall, rounded-corners, high-rise
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, high-tech
- Visual tags
- commercial-tower, curtain-wall, urban-density, corporate, skyscraper
- Geometry
- Twin rectangular high-rise towers featuring rounded corners and continuous flush unitized curtain walls, rising vertically from a dense urban podium base.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with rounded corner assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Composite steel and concrete core with perimeter framing.
- Spatial scale
- Colossal urban skyscraper scale, dwarfing the surrounding historic and commercial fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight with soft reflections and scattered clouds mirrored across the glazed tower surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, corporate, and monumental under a vast urban sky.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban high-rise context in Manhattan, surrounded by mixed-scale mid-rise and high-rise commercial buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The towers loom massively from an elevated perspective, their tall reflective planes mirroring neighboring structures and open sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis created by continuous mullions and soaring glass reflections against a dense urban foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office towers
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture