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A large-scale institutional architectural precedent featuring vertical cladding fins on tall towers above an active, terraced healthcare podium.
- What we like about this project
- The angled terracotta base dramatically cantilevers over the street corner entrance.
Materials
- terracotta
- glass
- aluminum
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- ribbed-vertical-fins
- terracotta-podium
- hospital-complex
- corner-entry
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- monumental
Visual tags
- institutional
- healthcare
- urban-tower
- mixed-massing
- ribbed-facade
- Geometry
- Massive multi-tower hospital complex rising from a sculpted, terraced podium that wraps the urban street corner.
- Facade system
- Unitized curtain wall with vertical fins on upper towers; terracotta panel rainscreen system on the multi-story base podium.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame and concrete core construction with long-span podium floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale institutional medical complex towering over multi-story street frontages.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight with soft directional shadows casting across the vertical facade fins and street level.
- Atmosphere
- Busy, civic, and professional urban healthcare setting under a bright clear sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection with surrounding mid-rise buildings, vehicular traffic, and pedestrian scale figures.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the street with a prominent multi-story base, stepping back to tall towers that command the urban fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical rhythm created by alternating window mullions and projecting facade fins across multiple tower volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional high-rise
- Program
- Hospital and medical center complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terracotta, glass, aluminum, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- ribbed-vertical-fins, terracotta-podium, hospital-complex, corner-entry
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, monumental
- Visual tags
- institutional, healthcare, urban-tower, mixed-massing, ribbed-facade
- Geometry
- Massive multi-tower hospital complex rising from a sculpted, terraced podium that wraps the urban street corner.
- Facade system
- Unitized curtain wall with vertical fins on upper towers; terracotta panel rainscreen system on the multi-story base podium.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame and concrete core construction with long-span podium floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale institutional medical complex towering over multi-story street frontages.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight with soft directional shadows casting across the vertical facade fins and street level.
- Atmosphere
- Busy, civic, and professional urban healthcare setting under a bright clear sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection with surrounding mid-rise buildings, vehicular traffic, and pedestrian scale figures.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the street with a prominent multi-story base, stepping back to tall towers that command the urban fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical rhythm created by alternating window mullions and projecting facade fins across multiple tower volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional high-rise
- Program
- Hospital and medical center complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture