Exterior street-level perspective of a large multi-story commercial
A commercial building facade precedent demonstrating how a vertically articulated color and material accent can break down the massing of a large gridded urban block.
- What we like about this project
- The vertical green bay incorporates integrated vertical fluting that catches changing sunlight across the facade.
Materials
- glass
- metal-panels
- concrete
- steel
Visual identifiers
- green-vertical-core
- curtain-wall
- commercial-block
- urban-corner
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- urban
Visual tags
- commercial
- urban-infill
- facade-articulation
- mixed-use
- daylight
- Geometry
- An orthogonal mid-rise block featuring a prominent vertical green core element that breaks the rhythm of the gridded glass and spandrel panels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with metal panel spandrels and a profiled vertical panel core.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat slab structure with perimeter curtain wall supports.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial block spanning multiple stories, framed by human-scaled street activity below.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting crisp shadows across the street and illuminating the metallic green cladding.
- Atmosphere
- Active, bright, and clean urban commercial atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with active pedestrian traffic, bicycle lanes, street furniture, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the urban intersection through transparent double-height ground-floor glazing and prominent pedestrian scale zones.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of curtain wall glazing interrupted by the solid vertical fluted green tower element.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-panels, concrete, steel
- Visual identifiers
- green-vertical-core, curtain-wall, commercial-block, urban-corner
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, urban
- Visual tags
- commercial, urban-infill, facade-articulation, mixed-use, daylight
- Geometry
- An orthogonal mid-rise block featuring a prominent vertical green core element that breaks the rhythm of the gridded glass and spandrel panels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with metal panel spandrels and a profiled vertical panel core.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete flat slab structure with perimeter curtain wall supports.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial block spanning multiple stories, framed by human-scaled street activity below.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting crisp shadows across the street and illuminating the metallic green cladding.
- Atmosphere
- Active, bright, and clean urban commercial atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with active pedestrian traffic, bicycle lanes, street furniture, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the urban intersection through transparent double-height ground-floor glazing and prominent pedestrian scale zones.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of curtain wall glazing interrupted by the solid vertical fluted green tower element.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture