The Quarters
Manchester
An exterior architectural precedent showcasing the juxtaposition of heavy textured brickwork with a cantilevered or projecting glazed corner bay, useful for urban residential or commercial facade design studies.
- What we like about this project
- The glazed corner unit wraps smoothly without visible corner columns, enhancing the lightness of the transparent volume.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- aluminum-framing
Visual identifiers
- glazed-corner-bay
- textured-brick
- punched-windows
- stepped-parapet
Style tags
- contemporary
- masonry
- rationalist
Visual tags
- brick-facade
- glazed-corner
- urban-architecture
- contemporary
- fenestration
- Geometry
- An articulated brick volume featuring a stepped parapet, tall vertical punched window openings, and a prominent multi-story glazed corner projection that wraps the massing junction.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or rainscreen brick cladding with punched window assemblies and structural aluminum-framed curtain wall corner element.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel frame with masonry cladding and secondary structural steel for the glazed corner projection.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story urban building scale, approximately mid-rise relative to surrounding urban fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with crisp reflections on glazing and soft shadow falloff across the textured light-brown brickwork.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp urban daytime mood emphasizing material contrast between solid masonry and reflective glass.
- Environmental context
- Urban setting viewed against a partly cloudy blue sky from a low pedestrian perspective.
- Spatial experience
- The building reads as a solid masonry mass carved with vertical slots, contrasting sharply with the transparency and lightness of the projecting glazed corner bay.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis established by stacked narrow window apertures paired with the full-height corner glazing stack.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban masonry architecture
- Program
- Residential apartments or mixed-use urban development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, aluminum-framing
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-corner-bay, textured-brick, punched-windows, stepped-parapet
- Style tags
- contemporary, masonry, rationalist
- Visual tags
- brick-facade, glazed-corner, urban-architecture, contemporary, fenestration
- Geometry
- An articulated brick volume featuring a stepped parapet, tall vertical punched window openings, and a prominent multi-story glazed corner projection that wraps the massing junction.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or rainscreen brick cladding with punched window assemblies and structural aluminum-framed curtain wall corner element.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel frame with masonry cladding and secondary structural steel for the glazed corner projection.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story urban building scale, approximately mid-rise relative to surrounding urban fabric.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with crisp reflections on glazing and soft shadow falloff across the textured light-brown brickwork.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp urban daytime mood emphasizing material contrast between solid masonry and reflective glass.
- Environmental context
- Urban setting viewed against a partly cloudy blue sky from a low pedestrian perspective.
- Spatial experience
- The building reads as a solid masonry mass carved with vertical slots, contrasting sharply with the transparency and lightness of the projecting glazed corner bay.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical emphasis established by stacked narrow window apertures paired with the full-height corner glazing stack.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban masonry architecture
- Program
- Residential apartments or mixed-use urban development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture