35 Hudson Yards
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An exterior precedent for large-scale mixed-use podium design, showcasing a gently undulating stone and glass facade that softens a dense urban street edge.
- What we like about this project
- The gentle sinusoidal curve of the lower podium contrasts sharply with the sheer rectilinear glass tower rising immediately behind it.
Materials
- limestone
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- curved-podium
- stone-cladding
- vertical-fins
- glazed-canopy
- high-rise-architecture
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- high-rise
- commercial-podium
- stone-facade
- Geometry
- Multi-story podium features a softly undulating, curved facade that transitions into a rectilinear tower above, framed by dense urban context.
- Facade system
- Unitized stone-clad curtain wall with deep vertical mullions and recessed glazing pockets.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs and concrete core shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise scale; the multi-story stone-clad podium creates a monumental yet detailed human-scaled ground level.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casts crisp diagonal shadows across the undulating facade and pedestrian drop-off zone.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling, sunlit urban civic atmosphere at the base of a major metropolitan tower.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban high-rise district with adjacent towers, public walkways, and sparse street trees.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrians navigate a paved public entry court framed by security bollards, moving toward a welcoming, glazed canopy entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical stone fins create a rhythmic, textured screen across the curved multi-story volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential tower podium
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- limestone, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- curved-podium, stone-cladding, vertical-fins, glazed-canopy, high-rise-architecture
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, mixed-use, high-rise, commercial-podium, stone-facade
- Geometry
- Multi-story podium features a softly undulating, curved facade that transitions into a rectilinear tower above, framed by dense urban context.
- Facade system
- Unitized stone-clad curtain wall with deep vertical mullions and recessed glazing pockets.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs and concrete core shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Massive high-rise scale; the multi-story stone-clad podium creates a monumental yet detailed human-scaled ground level.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casts crisp diagonal shadows across the undulating facade and pedestrian drop-off zone.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling, sunlit urban civic atmosphere at the base of a major metropolitan tower.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban high-rise district with adjacent towers, public walkways, and sparse street trees.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrians navigate a paved public entry court framed by security bollards, moving toward a welcoming, glazed canopy entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical stone fins create a rhythmic, textured screen across the curved multi-story volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential tower podium
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture