DCH Tower
A high-rise tower precedent featuring sweeping stacked cantilevers and a ribbed envelope, anchored by a grand stepped podium that frames public entry.
- What we like about this project
- The entire tower mass appears to float above the transparent ground floor and expansive stepped public podium.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- stacked-cantilevers
- ribbed-facade
- grand-stair-podium
- cylindrical-tower
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- expressive-structure
Visual tags
- high-rise
- cantilever
- podium
- public-plaza
- ribbed-envelope
- Geometry
- Cylindrical tower volume wrapped in stacked, projecting horizontal floor plates with deeply fluted or ribbed edges, rising from a broad tiered podium base.
- Facade system
- Ribbed unitized curtain wall behind deeply projecting continuous cantilevered balconies and eyebrows.
- Structural guess
- Concrete core with post-tensioned flat slabs extending into heavy cantilevered perimeter plates.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental skyscraper scale contrasted by human figures moving across the wide entry stair and plaza.
- Lighting
- Soft, warm daylight with an even overcast quality, casting gentle shadows underneath the deep balconies.
- Atmosphere
- Grand yet welcoming, balancing massive vertical scale with warm horizontal textures and soft daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban plaza setting with palm trees, integrated landscaping, and adjacent low-rise commercial structures.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching pedestrians move across a grand stepped plaza that leads directly beneath the floating, heavily cantilevered lower levels of the tower.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal banding of floor plates creates a strong stacked rhythm, countered by the vertical accents of palm trees.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental commercial architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use hotel or commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- stacked-cantilevers, ribbed-facade, grand-stair-podium, cylindrical-tower
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, expressive-structure
- Visual tags
- high-rise, cantilever, podium, public-plaza, ribbed-envelope
- Geometry
- Cylindrical tower volume wrapped in stacked, projecting horizontal floor plates with deeply fluted or ribbed edges, rising from a broad tiered podium base.
- Facade system
- Ribbed unitized curtain wall behind deeply projecting continuous cantilevered balconies and eyebrows.
- Structural guess
- Concrete core with post-tensioned flat slabs extending into heavy cantilevered perimeter plates.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental skyscraper scale contrasted by human figures moving across the wide entry stair and plaza.
- Lighting
- Soft, warm daylight with an even overcast quality, casting gentle shadows underneath the deep balconies.
- Atmosphere
- Grand yet welcoming, balancing massive vertical scale with warm horizontal textures and soft daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban plaza setting with palm trees, integrated landscaping, and adjacent low-rise commercial structures.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching pedestrians move across a grand stepped plaza that leads directly beneath the floating, heavily cantilevered lower levels of the tower.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal banding of floor plates creates a strong stacked rhythm, countered by the vertical accents of palm trees.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental commercial architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use hotel or commercial office tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture