榆林科创水上运动中心（竞赛）
西安
An aerial precedent for a mixed-use development combining a tall glass tower with cascading podium gardens and active waterfront integration.
- What we like about this project
- Large rectangular cutouts through the upper horizontal block reveal interior courtyard green spaces.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
- greenery
Visual identifiers
- glass-tower
- stepped-podium-gardens
- waterfront-masterplan
- carved-volume
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- high-tech
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- high-rise
- terraced-roofs
- waterfront
- masterplan
- dusk-rendering
- Geometry
- Complex masterplan comprising a slender glazed tower, a stepped terraced podium block, and a low-rise horizontal block with a central carved volume.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical fin accents on the tower.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite structures with core-supported high-rise framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale masterplan featuring a high-rise tower and multi-level terraced podiums relative to surrounding urban blocks.
- Lighting
- Dusk sky fading from deep blue to warm horizon glow; interior and podium lights illuminate the scheme against evening roads.
- Atmosphere
- Luminous and active evening atmosphere blending tower lights with green roof terraces.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting beside a curving river and dense city fabric with light traffic trails.
- Spatial experience
- The composition scales down from a soaring vertical tower toward stepped green podium roofs that meet the surrounding urban waterfront.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical articulation on the high-rise contrasts with horizontal stepped terraces on the podiums.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial masterplan architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial office, retail, and public podium
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete, greenery
- Visual identifiers
- glass-tower, stepped-podium-gardens, waterfront-masterplan, carved-volume
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, high-tech
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, high-rise, terraced-roofs, waterfront, masterplan, dusk-rendering
- Geometry
- Complex masterplan comprising a slender glazed tower, a stepped terraced podium block, and a low-rise horizontal block with a central carved volume.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical fin accents on the tower.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite structures with core-supported high-rise framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale masterplan featuring a high-rise tower and multi-level terraced podiums relative to surrounding urban blocks.
- Lighting
- Dusk sky fading from deep blue to warm horizon glow; interior and podium lights illuminate the scheme against evening roads.
- Atmosphere
- Luminous and active evening atmosphere blending tower lights with green roof terraces.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting beside a curving river and dense city fabric with light traffic trails.
- Spatial experience
- The composition scales down from a soaring vertical tower toward stepped green podium roofs that meet the surrounding urban waterfront.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical articulation on the high-rise contrasts with horizontal stepped terraces on the podiums.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial masterplan architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial office, retail, and public podium
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture