The Quarters
Manchester
A multi-story residential facade precedent featuring textured brickwork with dynamic angled window reveals and a crisp glazed corner element.
- What we like about this project
- The subtle chamfering and angled slope above each window bay create a sculptural relief effect across the flat brick surface.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- angled-window-reveals
- glazed-corner-bay
- stepped-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- brick-architecture
- rationalist
Visual tags
- residential
- urban-infill
- brickwork
- facade-articulation
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Stepped massing breaks down the length of the facade with recessed window bays and a prominent fully glazed vertical corner element.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad brick masonry with recessed punched openings and metal-framed corner curtain walling.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick outer skin
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale, approximately six stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting angled shadows across the recessed window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, structured, and solid with warm masonry tones contrasting against clear glass and sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a textured, heavy urban wall that opens up at the corner with lighter, transparent glazing.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical window groupings rhythmically interrupted by the stepped facade profile and major corner glass volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Residential apartments with ground floor commercial space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, angled-window-reveals, glazed-corner-bay, stepped-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, brick-architecture, rationalist
- Visual tags
- residential, urban-infill, brickwork, facade-articulation, contemporary
- Geometry
- Stepped massing breaks down the length of the facade with recessed window bays and a prominent fully glazed vertical corner element.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad brick masonry with recessed punched openings and metal-framed corner curtain walling.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick outer skin
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale, approximately six stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting angled shadows across the recessed window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, structured, and solid with warm masonry tones contrasting against clear glass and sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a textured, heavy urban wall that opens up at the corner with lighter, transparent glazing.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical window groupings rhythmically interrupted by the stepped facade profile and major corner glass volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Residential apartments with ground floor commercial space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture