One Roxborough West — Reflect Architecture
A street-level perspective of a stepped mixed-use tower combining a contextual masonry podium with a modern glazed and fin-articulated upper volume.
- What we like about this project
- Integrated landscape planters populating the upper outdoor terraces.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- aluminum
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing
- brick-podium
- vertical-fins
- terrace-setbacks
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual-modernism
- urban
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- urban-infill
- contemporary
- terraced
- street-edge
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with a two-story red brick base, mid-rise glazed tower with vertical fins, and upper terraced setbacks.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical metal or composite fins over a brick and stone-clad base.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with flat slabs and column grid.
- Spatial scale
- Eight-story mixed-use building scaled to transition between neighborhood commercial fabric and denser urban core.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the vertical mullion profiles.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active urban corner with a refined balance between historic scale and modern density.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with lower-scale historic brick buildings and streetscape plantings.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, stepping back as it rises to integrate terraces and reduce apparent mass against neighboring low-rise context.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm established by alternating solid panels and tall glazed openings, punctuated by horizontal slab edges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, aluminum, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing, brick-podium, vertical-fins, terrace-setbacks
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual-modernism, urban
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, urban-infill, contemporary, terraced, street-edge
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with a two-story red brick base, mid-rise glazed tower with vertical fins, and upper terraced setbacks.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical metal or composite fins over a brick and stone-clad base.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with flat slabs and column grid.
- Spatial scale
- Eight-story mixed-use building scaled to transition between neighborhood commercial fabric and denser urban core.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the vertical mullion profiles.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active urban corner with a refined balance between historic scale and modern density.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with lower-scale historic brick buildings and streetscape plantings.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street corner, stepping back as it rises to integrate terraces and reduce apparent mass against neighboring low-rise context.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm established by alternating solid panels and tall glazed openings, punctuated by horizontal slab edges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture