虹桥天地
上海
An aerial night view of a large commercial development featuring a prominent curved louvered facade—useful precedent for night lighting and curved urban envelope design.
- What we like about this project
- A separate cylindrical louvered tower element connects via a pedestrian bridge, echoing the main building's language.
Materials
- glass
- metal-fins
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- curved-facade
- vertical-fins
- night-illumination
- elliptical-mass
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- high-tech
Visual tags
- commercial
- urban-facade
- night-architecture
- curved-form
- illuminated
- Geometry
- An elliptical, multi-story curved volume dominates the central site, wrapped in a dynamic louvered or finned facade system above a glazed ground level.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall shielded by a primary layer of vertical metal fins or louvers.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs and curved perimeter diagrid or column structure.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story commercial complex spanning a major city block with pedestrian bridges and wide avenues.
- Lighting
- Cool blue interior and linear perimeter glow contrasting against warm orange street lighting and twilight sky.
- Atmosphere
- Luminous, high-energy urban nightscape with striking contrast between cool envelope glow and warm street ambiance.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban commercial district at night with surrounding multi-story developments and busy illuminated streets.
- Spatial experience
- The illuminated curved facade creates an inviting civic focal point along the urban street edge, drawing the eye across multi-level pedestrian pathways.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fins across the curved perimeter establish a dense, shimmering repetition around the elliptical form.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architecture with dynamic facade articulation
- Program
- Commercial retail and entertainment complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-fins, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- curved-facade, vertical-fins, night-illumination, elliptical-mass
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, high-tech
- Visual tags
- commercial, urban-facade, night-architecture, curved-form, illuminated
- Geometry
- An elliptical, multi-story curved volume dominates the central site, wrapped in a dynamic louvered or finned facade system above a glazed ground level.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall shielded by a primary layer of vertical metal fins or louvers.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs and curved perimeter diagrid or column structure.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story commercial complex spanning a major city block with pedestrian bridges and wide avenues.
- Lighting
- Cool blue interior and linear perimeter glow contrasting against warm orange street lighting and twilight sky.
- Atmosphere
- Luminous, high-energy urban nightscape with striking contrast between cool envelope glow and warm street ambiance.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban commercial district at night with surrounding multi-story developments and busy illuminated streets.
- Spatial experience
- The illuminated curved facade creates an inviting civic focal point along the urban street edge, drawing the eye across multi-level pedestrian pathways.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fins across the curved perimeter establish a dense, shimmering repetition around the elliptical form.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architecture with dynamic facade articulation
- Program
- Commercial retail and entertainment complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture