杭州支付宝大厦
北京
An exterior facade precedent for twin high-rise corporate towers utilizing uniform vertical louvers and a rhythmic grid system in a dense urban setting.
- What we like about this project
- The vertical banner integrated into one of the tower facades serves as a large-scale textural contrast to the fine grid.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- twin-towers
- grid-facade
- vertical-louvers
- urban-gateway
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- corporate
Visual tags
- high-rise
- commercial
- facade-rhythm
- urban-infill
- corporate
- Geometry
- Two parallel rectilinear high-rise volumes positioned with a clear urban gap, featuring continuous vertical grid patterns across their envelopes.
- Facade system
- Unitized curtain wall with external vertical shading louvers and integrated glazing panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or composite concrete core and frame structure with perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial high-rises dominating the urban intersection with human-scale activity at street level.
- Lighting
- Clear late afternoon light casting soft shadows across the facade louvers and illuminating the open streetscape foreground.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly corporate presence softened by late afternoon light and surrounding greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection with multi-lane roads, mature street trees, and surrounding low- to mid-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- The towers anchor a wide urban intersection, creating a monumental gateway framing the street perspective below.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical louvers and punched window modules create a synchronized double-tower rhythmic composition.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise rationalism
- Program
- Commercial office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- twin-towers, grid-facade, vertical-louvers, urban-gateway
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, corporate
- Visual tags
- high-rise, commercial, facade-rhythm, urban-infill, corporate
- Geometry
- Two parallel rectilinear high-rise volumes positioned with a clear urban gap, featuring continuous vertical grid patterns across their envelopes.
- Facade system
- Unitized curtain wall with external vertical shading louvers and integrated glazing panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or composite concrete core and frame structure with perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial high-rises dominating the urban intersection with human-scale activity at street level.
- Lighting
- Clear late afternoon light casting soft shadows across the facade louvers and illuminating the open streetscape foreground.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly corporate presence softened by late afternoon light and surrounding greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection with multi-lane roads, mature street trees, and surrounding low- to mid-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- The towers anchor a wide urban intersection, creating a monumental gateway framing the street perspective below.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical louvers and punched window modules create a synchronized double-tower rhythmic composition.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise rationalism
- Program
- Commercial office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture