Building Features
Introducing a new structure that reclaims the street frontage provides opportunity to establish a relationship to the architecture of existing adjacent retail components. Taking advantage of both the residential population housed above and the daily influx of commuters into the area, One North Fifth’s location at the east end of downtown in the Entertainment District provides unique opportunities to thrive.
- Drawing from the scale and proportion of adjacent structures such as the Hotel Congress allows a continuum of the historic fabric of Congress Street.
- The façade maintains the rhythm and pace of the surrounding streetscape while the open interior accommodates flexibility for modern uses. This includes a second story mezzanine option along Congress and a double-height space at the corner of 5th Ave.
- Entrances are set back from the primarily open building facade for shade and unimpeded access to doorways. This subtle staggering of space at the pedestrian level captures the outdoor streetscape and invites users inside.
- Broad expanses of glazing provide views in and out. Modern steel trellis shade structures overhead provide solar protection and visual detail to the facade.
- Ground level planters provide a landscaped edge against the building. Tension cables reaching up to the shade trellis allow indigenous vines to grow up the side of the structure.
- 4” integral color stacked masonry is employed at the commercial street front to tie into the materiality of the existing building as well as adjacent buildings. Metal panel on the upper sections of the building provides a modern, low-maintenance finish above.
- Signage will be incorporated at each tenant space as an integral part of the shade trellis.
- Commercial tenant spaces are flexible, and can vary according to need. Tenants also have access to a “back door” into the ground floor corridor, with easy access to the trash collection room.
