Regent Quarter
A public courtyard precedent illustrating the successful juxtaposition of historical brick architecture with contemporary metal-clad interventions in an urban mixed-use masterplan.
- What we like about this project
- Climbing vegetation embedded directly onto the upper levels of the historic brick facade.
Materials
- brick
- metal
- glass
- stone-paving
- timber
Visual identifiers
- courtyard
- brick-facade
- metal-cladding
- pedestrian-paving
- glazed-atrium
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- public-realm
- adaptive-reuse
- contextual
- Geometry
- An urban courtyard framed by existing low-rise brick volumes on one side and contemporary stepped metal-clad additions on the other, converging toward a glazed atrium termination.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window masonry walls and unitized metal-framed curtain wall systems.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete frames integrated with retained historic masonry structural walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled pedestrian courtyard with multi-story building elevations rising three to five levels.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight casting sharp shadows across the patterned stone paving.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, activated urban pocket combining historic warmth with crisp modern surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban courtyard surrounded by historical and contemporary mixed-use architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from the intimate, human-scaled outdoor dining tables along the warm brick wall into the deeper, taller pedestrian alleyway and central courtyard.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments on the historic brick contrast against the folded modular panel rhythm of the modern additions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use urban quarter with retail, dining, and workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, metal, glass, stone-paving, timber
- Visual identifiers
- courtyard, brick-facade, metal-cladding, pedestrian-paving, glazed-atrium
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, mixed-use, public-realm, adaptive-reuse, contextual
- Geometry
- An urban courtyard framed by existing low-rise brick volumes on one side and contemporary stepped metal-clad additions on the other, converging toward a glazed atrium termination.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window masonry walls and unitized metal-framed curtain wall systems.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete frames integrated with retained historic masonry structural walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled pedestrian courtyard with multi-story building elevations rising three to five levels.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight casting sharp shadows across the patterned stone paving.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, activated urban pocket combining historic warmth with crisp modern surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban courtyard surrounded by historical and contemporary mixed-use architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from the intimate, human-scaled outdoor dining tables along the warm brick wall into the deeper, taller pedestrian alleyway and central courtyard.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments on the historic brick contrast against the folded modular panel rhythm of the modern additions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use urban quarter with retail, dining, and workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture