Project Overview
Situated in a historic area, the 15-story Westin Alexandria condominiums and hotel needed to fit into its neighborhood of gardens, shops and restaurants. To provide an aesthetically pleasing design, architectural precast concrete panels clad the façade in a variety of finishes.
The building combines a 315-room hotel, 79 residential condominiums, below-grade parking, and street-level retail. The newcomer’s scale and silhouette were carefully crafted.
Precast Solution
The building is anchored with a precast concrete corner that serves as the hotel’s main entryway, which presents the image of a tower continuing two stories above the building’s brick walls which descend wedding cake-fashion.
On the top floors, lightly sandblasted panel sections were finessed to give the appearance of curvature on the sides, and vertical fins made of glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) separate the condominium bays. Together with the precast the two materials create the appearance of uniform limestone.
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