Arbor
An exterior precedent for high-rise commercial architecture featuring a unitized glass curtain wall system lifted above historic urban infrastructure.
- What we like about this project
- Timber-lined recessed balconies break the uniform all-glass grid on the right side.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- steel
- brick
Visual identifiers
- double-skin-facade
- glass-curtain-wall
- raised-tower
- grid-pattern
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- rationalist
Visual tags
- commercial
- high-rise
- urban-infill
- curtain-wall
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower massing lifted on slender pilotis over an existing masonry base, featuring a unitized double-skin glass curtain wall grid.
- Facade system
- Unitized double-skin glass curtain wall with slim metallic mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs supported by pilotis and core.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial high-rise tower rising over twelve stories above a double-height ground clearance.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight casting crisp shadows; blue sky background with even illumination across the glazed facade grid.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp corporate transparency contrasting with heavy brick infrastructure below.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection adjacent to historic brick railway arches and low-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- The building floats above the active street corner, creating a transparent, highly visible urban threshold at ground level.
- Composition rhythm
- Rigid orthogonal vertical grid punctuated by recessed loggia balconies on the right elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, steel, brick
- Visual identifiers
- double-skin-facade, glass-curtain-wall, raised-tower, grid-pattern
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, rationalist
- Visual tags
- commercial, high-rise, urban-infill, curtain-wall, contemporary
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower massing lifted on slender pilotis over an existing masonry base, featuring a unitized double-skin glass curtain wall grid.
- Facade system
- Unitized double-skin glass curtain wall with slim metallic mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs supported by pilotis and core.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial high-rise tower rising over twelve stories above a double-height ground clearance.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight casting crisp shadows; blue sky background with even illumination across the glazed facade grid.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp corporate transparency contrasting with heavy brick infrastructure below.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection adjacent to historic brick railway arches and low-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- The building floats above the active street corner, creating a transparent, highly visible urban threshold at ground level.
- Composition rhythm
- Rigid orthogonal vertical grid punctuated by recessed loggia balconies on the right elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-rise architecture
- Program
- Commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture