1414 HIGH ROAD, WHETSTONE, N20 9FL
A street corner commercial and residential precedent demonstrating large punched glass openings within a pale brick structural grid.
- What we like about this project
- Continuous vertical floor-to-ceiling glass bays seamlessly turn the prominent corner.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- corner-glazing
- commercial-storefront
- glazed-balcony
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban-infill
- rationalist
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- corner-building
- twilight-lighting
- retail-base
- contemporary-brick
- Geometry
- An orthogonal corner massing featuring a grid of large floor-to-ceiling multi-pane window openings framed in pale brick.
- Facade system
- Light masonry veneer with large insulated glass window units and recessed retail storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry cladding and punched window openings.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story mixed-use scale framing the street edge.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour sky contrasting with warm interior light glowing through expansive storefronts and upper windows.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and polished urban presence created by warm interior illumination spilling onto the twilight street.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner infill site with asphalt paving and neighboring mid-rise buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a transparent, glowing commercial base at street level transitioning to heavily glazed upper stories.
- Composition rhythm
- Ordered vertical bays wrapping the corner edge with consistent window proportions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use retail and residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, corner-glazing, commercial-storefront, glazed-balcony
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban-infill, rationalist
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, corner-building, twilight-lighting, retail-base, contemporary-brick
- Geometry
- An orthogonal corner massing featuring a grid of large floor-to-ceiling multi-pane window openings framed in pale brick.
- Facade system
- Light masonry veneer with large insulated glass window units and recessed retail storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry cladding and punched window openings.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story mixed-use scale framing the street edge.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour sky contrasting with warm interior light glowing through expansive storefronts and upper windows.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and polished urban presence created by warm interior illumination spilling onto the twilight street.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner infill site with asphalt paving and neighboring mid-rise buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a transparent, glowing commercial base at street level transitioning to heavily glazed upper stories.
- Composition rhythm
- Ordered vertical bays wrapping the corner edge with consistent window proportions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use retail and residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture