Buro-OS_1500-West-Georgia-in-Vancouver
北京
A striking high-rise precedent showcasing stacked, off-set cantilevered volumes that disrupt standard tower typologies, ideal for studying vertical massing and urban landmark design.
- What we like about this project
- Randomized rotation and extension of individual blocks make the building appear to shift and reassemble as it rises.
Materials
- glass
- metal-panel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- stacked-cantilevers
- offset-volumes
- tower-silhouette
- dusk-lighting
Style tags
- contemporary
- parametric
- deconstructivist
Visual tags
- high-rise
- cantilever
- urban-tower
- mixed-use
- night-lighting
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower form broken down into stacked, off-set cantilevered rectangular volumes that project dramatically outward from a central core.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with alternating opaque and transparent panels across stacked blocks.
- Structural guess
- Central reinforced concrete core with heavy steel or post-tensioned concrete transfer trusses supporting large cantilevered blocks.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower scale dwarfing surrounding mid-rise and high-rise context buildings.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with purple and blue hues; interior illumination glows from within the cantilevered blocks, creating high-contrast patches of light across the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and futuristic evening glow highlighting individual stacked modules against a moody twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront foreground with silhouette trees and distant city skyline under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The tower reads as a vertical agglomeration of individual neighborhoods or sky-villages rather than a uniform glass box, standing out sharply against the denser urban backdrop.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical, irregular staggering of projecting volumes interrupting the continuous vertical axis of the core.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric stacked tower
- Program
- Residential high-rise tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-panel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- stacked-cantilevers, offset-volumes, tower-silhouette, dusk-lighting
- Style tags
- contemporary, parametric, deconstructivist
- Visual tags
- high-rise, cantilever, urban-tower, mixed-use, night-lighting
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower form broken down into stacked, off-set cantilevered rectangular volumes that project dramatically outward from a central core.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with alternating opaque and transparent panels across stacked blocks.
- Structural guess
- Central reinforced concrete core with heavy steel or post-tensioned concrete transfer trusses supporting large cantilevered blocks.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower scale dwarfing surrounding mid-rise and high-rise context buildings.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with purple and blue hues; interior illumination glows from within the cantilevered blocks, creating high-contrast patches of light across the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and futuristic evening glow highlighting individual stacked modules against a moody twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront foreground with silhouette trees and distant city skyline under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The tower reads as a vertical agglomeration of individual neighborhoods or sky-villages rather than a uniform glass box, standing out sharply against the denser urban backdrop.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical, irregular staggering of projecting volumes interrupting the continuous vertical axis of the core.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric stacked tower
- Program
- Residential high-rise tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture