UK - London - 61 Oxford St curves 02_DSC7823
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A shot of the eye-catching, award winning Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed building at 61 Oxford Street. This is the Northern Oxford St facade and as such it only receves the sun late on a summers evening.
Click here to see more shots of London architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157635041185106
From the AHMM website : "61 Oxford Street aims to harmonise the disparate architectural styles that currently characterise east Oxford Street by carefully replacing some local buildings of note with a prominent corner beacon. With its focus on glass – the surface of choice for retailers – the scheme hones in on the area’s one and only shared material quality, and, in undulating that glass, nods to the history of London’s special glazed shopfronts.
An eight-storey volume is articulated with a hierarchy of curved ‘oriel’ or bay windows to unify ground and upper floors and establish the building’s place both on the street and in the sky. The ‘wave length’ of the vertical undulation shortens at the upper levels and combines with horizontal banding to distinguish the retail (the four lower levels, including lower-ground) from the office (the two middle levels) and residential (the upper two levels).
Views, amenity and daylight are maximised for office and residential occupants through set-backs, external terraces and internal planning."
© D.Godliman
UK - London - 61 Oxford St curves 02_DSC7823
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
A shot of the eye-catching, award winning Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed building at 61 Oxford Street. This is the Northern Oxford St facade and as such it only receves the sun late on a summers evening.
Click here to see more shots of London architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157635041185106
From the AHMM website : "61 Oxford Street aims to harmonise the disparate architectural styles that currently characterise east Oxford Street by carefully replacing some local buildings of note with a prominent corner beacon. With its focus on glass – the surface of choice for retailers – the scheme hones in on the area’s one and only shared material quality, and, in undulating that glass, nods to the history of London’s special glazed shopfronts.
An eight-storey volume is articulated with a hierarchy of curved ‘oriel’ or bay windows to unify ground and upper floors and establish the building’s place both on the street and in the sky. The ‘wave length’ of the vertical undulation shortens at the upper levels and combines with horizontal banding to distinguish the retail (the four lower levels, including lower-ground) from the office (the two middle levels) and residential (the upper two levels).
Views, amenity and daylight are maximised for office and residential occupants through set-backs, external terraces and internal planning."
© D.Godliman