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An urban commercial corner building featuring a vertical glazed tower element and metal panel cladding, serving as a precedent for multi-tenant retail architecture.
- What we like about this project
- The fully glazed corner tower acts as a luminous beacon cutting vertically through the horizontal metal panel bands.
Materials
- metal-panel
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- glazed-corner-tower
- metallic-panel-facade
- multistory-retail
- curtain-wall
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- rationalist
Visual tags
- commercial
- retail
- urban-infill
- corner-building
- curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Rectangular multi-story massing featuring a prominent vertical glazed corner tower that splits the primary elevations.
- Facade system
- Metal composite panel rainscreen combined with structural glass curtain wall at the corner tower.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite metal deck slabs and lateral bracing
- Spatial scale
- Four to five stories high, scaled to a major urban commercial corner.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows across the street intersection and illuminating the metallic panel cladding.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active, and thoroughly integrated into the busy urban streetscape.
- Environmental context
- Busy urban street intersection with traffic, pedestrians, and surrounding lower-rise commercial fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands a prominent urban street corner, opening up views into multilevel retail spaces through large glass facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding of windows interrupted by vertical bays and anchored by the central glazed corner.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architecture
- Program
- Multitenant commercial and retail building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-corner-tower, metallic-panel-facade, multistory-retail, curtain-wall
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, rationalist
- Visual tags
- commercial, retail, urban-infill, corner-building, curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Rectangular multi-story massing featuring a prominent vertical glazed corner tower that splits the primary elevations.
- Facade system
- Metal composite panel rainscreen combined with structural glass curtain wall at the corner tower.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite metal deck slabs and lateral bracing
- Spatial scale
- Four to five stories high, scaled to a major urban commercial corner.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows across the street intersection and illuminating the metallic panel cladding.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active, and thoroughly integrated into the busy urban streetscape.
- Environmental context
- Busy urban street intersection with traffic, pedestrians, and surrounding lower-rise commercial fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The building commands a prominent urban street corner, opening up views into multilevel retail spaces through large glass facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding of windows interrupted by vertical bays and anchored by the central glazed corner.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architecture
- Program
- Multitenant commercial and retail building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture