156 Bowery
An urban infill hotel and commercial facade featuring light-toned brick, rhythmic arched windows, and a central glazed bay that bridges historic neighborhood character with contemporary vertical proportions.
- What we like about this project
- Integrated window-box planters above each window opening introduce vertical ribbons of green across the pale brick.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- steel
Visual identifiers
- arched-windows
- light-brick-facade
- central-glass-bay
- corner-infill
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- facade-rhythm
- hotel-architecture
- street-edge
- contextual
- Geometry
- An eight-story urban infill massing combines arched punched openings with a central vertical multi-story glazed bay, terminating in stepped roof terraces.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing light brick masonry with punched arched window assemblies and a central structural glass curtain wall bay.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat-slab structure with masonry and curtain wall cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-rise urban scale relative to adjacent street frontages, spanning approximately eight stories.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sunlight from the upper left casting soft shadows and highlighting the deep frame profiles of the windows.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, clean urban daylight accentuating a balanced blend of historic industrial cues and contemporary verticality.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street corner with neighboring mid-rise buildings, taxi cab, parked cars, and pedestrians on the sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, presenting a rhythmic, permeable ground floor while transitioning to residential or hotel window grids above.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical window bays rhythmically interrupted by the central transparent slot and framed by ground-level storefronts.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary urban architecture
- Program
- Hotel or mixed-use commercial with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, steel
- Visual identifiers
- arched-windows, light-brick-facade, central-glass-bay, corner-infill
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, facade-rhythm, hotel-architecture, street-edge, contextual
- Geometry
- An eight-story urban infill massing combines arched punched openings with a central vertical multi-story glazed bay, terminating in stepped roof terraces.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing light brick masonry with punched arched window assemblies and a central structural glass curtain wall bay.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat-slab structure with masonry and curtain wall cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-rise urban scale relative to adjacent street frontages, spanning approximately eight stories.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sunlight from the upper left casting soft shadows and highlighting the deep frame profiles of the windows.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, clean urban daylight accentuating a balanced blend of historic industrial cues and contemporary verticality.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street corner with neighboring mid-rise buildings, taxi cab, parked cars, and pedestrians on the sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, presenting a rhythmic, permeable ground floor while transitioning to residential or hotel window grids above.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical window bays rhythmically interrupted by the central transparent slot and framed by ground-level storefronts.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary urban architecture
- Program
- Hotel or mixed-use commercial with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture