The Forge
An exterior precedent for commercial office architecture combining a rhythmic dark metallic upper facade with an open, white-framed ground floor colonnade at a prominent urban corner.
- What we like about this project
- The stark color contrast between the light ground floor and the dark upper massing grounds the large building firmly to the sidewalk.
Materials
- dark-metal
- glass
- white-stone
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- dark-metal-grid
- white-ground-colonnade
- corner-massing
- vertical-fins
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial-chic
- rationalist
Visual tags
- commercial-office
- urban-corner
- metal-facade
- street-edge
- contemporary
- Geometry
- A sharp urban corner massing featuring a rhythmic dark metal grid facade sitting above a contrasting white ground-floor colonnade.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal grid curtain wall with deep vertical fins over a white stone or concrete base colonnade.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab structure with suspended unitized facade elements.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial scale with a human-scaled colonnade at the street level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows across the facade's deep vertical fins and the street level.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, professional, and sharply articulated in the strong urban daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with surrounding context buildings and a distant skyscraper visible under a clear sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, with the heavy vertical rhythm drawing the eye upward while the transparent white ground floor invites pedestrian interaction.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical fin spacing creating a continuous rhythmic screen along both street elevations.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial-refined commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial Office Building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-metal, glass, white-stone, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- dark-metal-grid, white-ground-colonnade, corner-massing, vertical-fins
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial-chic, rationalist
- Visual tags
- commercial-office, urban-corner, metal-facade, street-edge, contemporary
- Geometry
- A sharp urban corner massing featuring a rhythmic dark metal grid facade sitting above a contrasting white ground-floor colonnade.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal grid curtain wall with deep vertical fins over a white stone or concrete base colonnade.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab structure with suspended unitized facade elements.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial scale with a human-scaled colonnade at the street level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows across the facade's deep vertical fins and the street level.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, professional, and sharply articulated in the strong urban daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with surrounding context buildings and a distant skyscraper visible under a clear sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, with the heavy vertical rhythm drawing the eye upward while the transparent white ground floor invites pedestrian interaction.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical fin spacing creating a continuous rhythmic screen along both street elevations.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial-refined commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial Office Building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture