50 Floral Street Covent Garden, London WC2
A storefront facade precedent by Garnett Architecture that integrates modern dark-metal retail glazing within a historic brick and masonry urban context.
- What we like about this project
- Detailed decorative cast-iron or metal grille work runs along the base of the storefront display windows.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- painted-metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- storefront-facade
- brick-piers
- dark-metal-framing
- historic-context
Style tags
- contextual
- heritage
- retail
- urban
Visual tags
- retail
- historic-preservation
- streetscape
- commercial
- urban-facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical storefront set within an historic masonry street facade, featuring large plate glass panels below transom lights and an articulated entryway.
- Facade system
- Dark-painted metal curtain wall and glazed timber-framed storefront set into structural brick piers.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry piers supporting historic upper timber or steel framing.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale; ground-floor retail frontage roughly one and a half stories tall.
- Lighting
- Soft daylight from a diffuse overcast sky illuminates the brick texture and dark metal shopfront without harsh glare.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, refined urban commercial atmosphere blending historic masonry with contemporary storefront detailing.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage in a historic commercial district, flanked by traditional multi-story masonry buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The deep storefront reveal and clear ground-floor glazing invite the eye inward toward an open interior stair.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical brick piers anchor the wide horizontal storefront band.
- Style reading
- Contextual heritage retail architecture
- Program
- Retail shop / commercial store
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, painted-metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- storefront-facade, brick-piers, dark-metal-framing, historic-context
- Style tags
- contextual, heritage, retail, urban
- Visual tags
- retail, historic-preservation, streetscape, commercial, urban-facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical storefront set within an historic masonry street facade, featuring large plate glass panels below transom lights and an articulated entryway.
- Facade system
- Dark-painted metal curtain wall and glazed timber-framed storefront set into structural brick piers.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry piers supporting historic upper timber or steel framing.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale; ground-floor retail frontage roughly one and a half stories tall.
- Lighting
- Soft daylight from a diffuse overcast sky illuminates the brick texture and dark metal shopfront without harsh glare.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, refined urban commercial atmosphere blending historic masonry with contemporary storefront detailing.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage in a historic commercial district, flanked by traditional multi-story masonry buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The deep storefront reveal and clear ground-floor glazing invite the eye inward toward an open interior stair.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical brick piers anchor the wide horizontal storefront band.
- Style reading
- Contextual heritage retail architecture
- Program
- Retail shop / commercial store
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture