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An urban townhouse facade precedent combining preserved historic residential brickwork with a contemporary black commercial storefront at the ground level.
- What we like about this project
- The crisp black painted storefront cleanly divides the historic masonry without disrupting the upper window rhythm.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- painted-wood
- brownstone
- metal
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- punched-windows
- black-storefront
- historic-townhouse
Style tags
- historic
- vernacular
- urban-facade
Visual tags
- historic-preservation
- retail-facade
- urban-infill
- masonry
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Symmetrical four-story brick facade featuring a strict grid of punched window openings with brownstone sills and lintels, anchored by a contrasting black storefront base.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing masonry brick wall with punched window openings and applied storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with timber floor joists
- Spatial scale
- Four-story historic urban townhouse scale relative to pedestrians and the street width.
- Lighting
- Direct overcast daylight producing soft, even illumination and subtle shadows beneath lintels and window sills.
- Atmosphere
- Grounded and established urban street presence with a refined contrast between warm masonry and dark metal storefront framing.
- Environmental context
- Urban sidewalk context with mature street trees and a bicycle parked near the curb.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level commercial storefront provides an accessible, human-scaled interface beneath the heavy residential masonry above.
- Composition rhythm
- Four vertical bays of evenly spaced sash windows sitting above a horizontal retail storefront datum.
- Style reading
- Historic vernacular with contemporary commercial intervention
- Program
- Mixed-use urban building with ground-floor retail and upper residential floors
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, painted-wood, brownstone, metal
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, punched-windows, black-storefront, historic-townhouse
- Style tags
- historic, vernacular, urban-facade
- Visual tags
- historic-preservation, retail-facade, urban-infill, masonry, streetscape
- Geometry
- Symmetrical four-story brick facade featuring a strict grid of punched window openings with brownstone sills and lintels, anchored by a contrasting black storefront base.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing masonry brick wall with punched window openings and applied storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with timber floor joists
- Spatial scale
- Four-story historic urban townhouse scale relative to pedestrians and the street width.
- Lighting
- Direct overcast daylight producing soft, even illumination and subtle shadows beneath lintels and window sills.
- Atmosphere
- Grounded and established urban street presence with a refined contrast between warm masonry and dark metal storefront framing.
- Environmental context
- Urban sidewalk context with mature street trees and a bicycle parked near the curb.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level commercial storefront provides an accessible, human-scaled interface beneath the heavy residential masonry above.
- Composition rhythm
- Four vertical bays of evenly spaced sash windows sitting above a horizontal retail storefront datum.
- Style reading
- Historic vernacular with contemporary commercial intervention
- Program
- Mixed-use urban building with ground-floor retail and upper residential floors
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture