360 North Green
A striking commercial building exterior precedent featuring an illuminated translucent upper facade cantilevered over a generous sheltered plaza supported by expressed V-columns.
- What we like about this project
- The upper floor appears to float effortlessly due to the careful alignment of vertical glowing strips and the deep shadow cast beneath the slab.
Materials
- channel-glass
- steel
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- glowing-channel-glass
- v-columns
- cantilevered-volume
- illuminated-portico
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- structural-expressionism
Visual tags
- night-lighting
- commercial
- urban-facade
- structural-expression
- canopy
- Geometry
- An orthogonal cantilevered upper volume clad in translucent panels floats above an expansive, recessed ground-level public portico framed by angled V-shaped steel columns.
- Facade system
- Translucent channel glass curtain wall system with integrated vertical lighting reveals above a glazed storefront ground level.
- Structural guess
- Heavy steel or composite framing with large cantilevers supported by prominent structural V-columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial or civic building with a double-height ground floor and extensive canopy overhang.
- Lighting
- Even vertical illumination washes the upper channel glass facade, while recessed ceiling downlights and uplights highlight the structural V-columns and pedestrian concourse at dusk.
- Atmosphere
- Luminous, welcoming, and crisp against the twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge at twilight with surrounding neighboring low-rise buildings and paved hardscape.
- Spatial experience
- The deep, illuminated overhang creates a welcoming, sheltered civic transition zone between the public sidewalk and the internal lobby.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical panel joints and slender glowing reveals establish a steady rhythm across the upper facade, contrasted by heavy, dynamic V-columns below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architectural expression
- Program
- Commercial office building lobby and ground-floor public plaza
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- channel-glass, steel, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- glowing-channel-glass, v-columns, cantilevered-volume, illuminated-portico
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, structural-expressionism
- Visual tags
- night-lighting, commercial, urban-facade, structural-expression, canopy
- Geometry
- An orthogonal cantilevered upper volume clad in translucent panels floats above an expansive, recessed ground-level public portico framed by angled V-shaped steel columns.
- Facade system
- Translucent channel glass curtain wall system with integrated vertical lighting reveals above a glazed storefront ground level.
- Structural guess
- Heavy steel or composite framing with large cantilevers supported by prominent structural V-columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial or civic building with a double-height ground floor and extensive canopy overhang.
- Lighting
- Even vertical illumination washes the upper channel glass facade, while recessed ceiling downlights and uplights highlight the structural V-columns and pedestrian concourse at dusk.
- Atmosphere
- Luminous, welcoming, and crisp against the twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge at twilight with surrounding neighboring low-rise buildings and paved hardscape.
- Spatial experience
- The deep, illuminated overhang creates a welcoming, sheltered civic transition zone between the public sidewalk and the internal lobby.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical panel joints and slender glowing reveals establish a steady rhythm across the upper facade, contrasted by heavy, dynamic V-columns below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architectural expression
- Program
- Commercial office building lobby and ground-floor public plaza
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture