Bow Bells House
2026
Bow Bells House by White Red illustrates a sophisticated urban infill strategy, pairing solid stone-clad corner massing with an expressive glazed grid and stepped rooftop pavilion.
- What we like about this project
- The transition from heavy solid stone cladding on the corner to a light structural glass facade on the adjacent bay.
Materials
- stone
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- stone-cladding
- curtain-wall
- corner-massing
- retail-ground-floor
- glass-penthouse
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- commercial
Visual tags
- commercial
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- street-edge
- contemporary-office
- Geometry
- An urban corner building featuring a solid stone-clad massing on the left anchoring a glazed curtain wall grid to the right, topped with a stepped glass penthouse pavilion.
- Facade system
- Combination of precast stone panel rainscreen with punched windows and unitized aluminum-glass curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab structure with perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- A multi-story urban commercial block stepping down toward the street edge, fitting harmoniously within the mid-rise city fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sun casting sharp shadows across the deep window reveals of the stone corner.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, professional, and integrated into a bustling city street life.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban streetscape with mature deciduous street trees, pedestrian traffic, and adjacent historic and contemporary buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the dense urban sidewalk through active ground-floor retail frontages and clear corner massing that frames the street intersection.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays transition from solid punched stone openings to a lighter metal and glass grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial urbanism
- Program
- Commercial office building with ground floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- stone-cladding, curtain-wall, corner-massing, retail-ground-floor, glass-penthouse
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, commercial
- Visual tags
- commercial, urban-infill, mixed-use, street-edge, contemporary-office
- Geometry
- An urban corner building featuring a solid stone-clad massing on the left anchoring a glazed curtain wall grid to the right, topped with a stepped glass penthouse pavilion.
- Facade system
- Combination of precast stone panel rainscreen with punched windows and unitized aluminum-glass curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab structure with perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- A multi-story urban commercial block stepping down toward the street edge, fitting harmoniously within the mid-rise city fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sun casting sharp shadows across the deep window reveals of the stone corner.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, professional, and integrated into a bustling city street life.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban streetscape with mature deciduous street trees, pedestrian traffic, and adjacent historic and contemporary buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the dense urban sidewalk through active ground-floor retail frontages and clear corner massing that frames the street intersection.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays transition from solid punched stone openings to a lighter metal and glass grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial urbanism
- Program
- Commercial office building with ground floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture