大N楼
北京
An exterior view of a monumental urban office building featuring a striking geometric V-cutout that creates a dramatic public portal.
- What we like about this project
- The sheer scale of the central inverted-V opening transforming the building block into a monumental gateway.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- v-shaped-cutout
- glazed-curtain-wall
- monumental-massing
- urban-plaza
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- rationalist
Visual tags
- facade
- monumental
- urban-gateway
- contemporary-office
- glazed-envelope
- Geometry
- Massing forms an interlocking monumental geometric volume with a massive inverted V-shaped void carved through the central profile.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core or steel transfer trusses spanning the central void.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; the central cutout spans multiple stories, dwarfing the surrounding young trees and paving elements.
- Lighting
- Clear late-day directional light casting crisp blue-hour reflections on the glazed curtain wall and sharp shadows in the deep central carve.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp, and slightly monumental under an open sky.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a wide open plaza with newly planted young trees and adjacent high-rise residential towers in an urban context.
- Spatial experience
- The oversized geometric void frames the sky and acts as an urban gateway pulling the public plaza visually through the building footprint.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical dual towers united by a dramatic diagonal bridging element and a central void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental corporate architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- v-shaped-cutout, glazed-curtain-wall, monumental-massing, urban-plaza
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, rationalist
- Visual tags
- facade, monumental, urban-gateway, contemporary-office, glazed-envelope
- Geometry
- Massing forms an interlocking monumental geometric volume with a massive inverted V-shaped void carved through the central profile.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core or steel transfer trusses spanning the central void.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; the central cutout spans multiple stories, dwarfing the surrounding young trees and paving elements.
- Lighting
- Clear late-day directional light casting crisp blue-hour reflections on the glazed curtain wall and sharp shadows in the deep central carve.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp, and slightly monumental under an open sky.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by a wide open plaza with newly planted young trees and adjacent high-rise residential towers in an urban context.
- Spatial experience
- The oversized geometric void frames the sky and acts as an urban gateway pulling the public plaza visually through the building footprint.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical dual towers united by a dramatic diagonal bridging element and a central void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental corporate architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture