7 Seventy House - Featured Project
An exterior precedent for multi-family residential complexes combining heavy brick podiums with lighter glazed upper volumes around an urban courtyard.
- What we like about this project
- The transition from heavy brick base to lightweight glazed towers shifts cleanly at the mid-level terrace line.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal-panels
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-podium
- glazed-towers
- stepped-massing
- landscaped-plaza
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban-infill
- rationalist
Visual tags
- multi-family
- urban-housing
- mixed-use
- facade-articulation
- public-realm
- Geometry
- An articulated composition of mid-rise and high-rise volumes stepping down toward a landscaped public plaza with low retaining walls.
- Facade system
- Combination of unitized glass curtain walls on upper floors and punched windows set within masonry podiums.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete podium with lightweight metal or concrete superstructure above.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale residential complex with multi-story blocks creating a strong neighborhood urban edge.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sun with dramatic clouds, casting crisp shadows and highlighting alternating brick and glazed facade grids.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and structured urban neighborhood setting with a balance of hardscape, planting, and varied architectural massing.
- Environmental context
- Urban multi-family development fronting an active pedestrian plaza and landscaped park space.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the open courtyard, the multi-block arrangement creates varied urban rooms and long sightlines framed by podium bases.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window grids across different facade treatments establish a complex vertical and horizontal rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary mixed-use residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential complex with ground-level public open space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal-panels, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-podium, glazed-towers, stepped-massing, landscaped-plaza
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban-infill, rationalist
- Visual tags
- multi-family, urban-housing, mixed-use, facade-articulation, public-realm
- Geometry
- An articulated composition of mid-rise and high-rise volumes stepping down toward a landscaped public plaza with low retaining walls.
- Facade system
- Combination of unitized glass curtain walls on upper floors and punched windows set within masonry podiums.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete podium with lightweight metal or concrete superstructure above.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale residential complex with multi-story blocks creating a strong neighborhood urban edge.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime sun with dramatic clouds, casting crisp shadows and highlighting alternating brick and glazed facade grids.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and structured urban neighborhood setting with a balance of hardscape, planting, and varied architectural massing.
- Environmental context
- Urban multi-family development fronting an active pedestrian plaza and landscaped park space.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the open courtyard, the multi-block arrangement creates varied urban rooms and long sightlines framed by podium bases.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window grids across different facade treatments establish a complex vertical and horizontal rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary mixed-use residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential complex with ground-level public open space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture