Two Tabernacle Street
An exterior facade precedent showing the integration of a contemporary full-height glazed entrance and historic masonry restoration for an urban commercial building.
- What we like about this project
- A delicate angular geometric pendant light floats inside the double-height timber atrium.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- stone
- timber
- steel
Visual identifiers
- glazed-entrance
- brick-facade
- timber-lobby
- stone-pediment
- structural-glass
Style tags
- contemporary-historic
- adaptive-reuse
- urban
Visual tags
- commercial-lobby
- adaptive-reuse
- street-frontage
- warm-interior
- historic-integration
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-bay composition featuring a large full-height glazed portal on the left and a pedimented entrance portal on the right, integrated into an existing masonry fabric.
- Facade system
- Structural glass curtain wall insert beside loadbearing brickwork with stone detailing.
- Structural guess
- Loadbearing masonry exterior with inserted steel and glass storefront framework.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale commercial entrance spanning approximately three stories in height.
- Lighting
- Warm interior illumination contrasts against the cool, even dusk daylight falling on the exterior brick facade.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and polished, balancing rustic historic brick with glowing modern interior timber and light.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage flanked by historic masonry buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level transparency reveals a deep, warm wood-clad interior lobby volume with mezzanine railing and suspended lighting beyond the threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical balance between the monumental glazed opening and the classical stone doorway.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention within historic masonry
- Program
- Commercial office lobby
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, stone, timber, steel
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-entrance, brick-facade, timber-lobby, stone-pediment, structural-glass
- Style tags
- contemporary-historic, adaptive-reuse, urban
- Visual tags
- commercial-lobby, adaptive-reuse, street-frontage, warm-interior, historic-integration
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-bay composition featuring a large full-height glazed portal on the left and a pedimented entrance portal on the right, integrated into an existing masonry fabric.
- Facade system
- Structural glass curtain wall insert beside loadbearing brickwork with stone detailing.
- Structural guess
- Loadbearing masonry exterior with inserted steel and glass storefront framework.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale commercial entrance spanning approximately three stories in height.
- Lighting
- Warm interior illumination contrasts against the cool, even dusk daylight falling on the exterior brick facade.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and polished, balancing rustic historic brick with glowing modern interior timber and light.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage flanked by historic masonry buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level transparency reveals a deep, warm wood-clad interior lobby volume with mezzanine railing and suspended lighting beyond the threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical balance between the monumental glazed opening and the classical stone doorway.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention within historic masonry
- Program
- Commercial office lobby
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture