A second building
Twenty storeys, generated in code
Five retail levels wrapped around an atrium that runs the full height of the podium to a roof light, fifteen floors of apartments above it, and the amenity deck on the roof between the two. Every balcony, fin, slab edge and shopfront is a pure function of one configuration object — there is no model file and no photograph anywhere in it.
It shares the residence’s renderer completely: the same materials, the same merged-geometry primitives, the same time-of-day rig and the same finishing chain. What is new is only what a building on a beach actually needs — an ocean written at swell scale rather than pool scale, a beach that falls to the water, and palms.
The site is fictional and unlocated. It is composed for the light rather than surveyed: the sun at golden hour sits low over the water on the building’s ocean elevation, which is what puts the sunset in front of the balconies.
The building, in figures
Every figure below is counted from the same geometry the view above is drawn from. None of it is written by hand, so none of it can drift from the building.
- Storeys
- 205 of retail, 15 above
- Height
- 80 mPlaza to the top of the crown
- Residences
- 14One apartment to each floor
- Retail levels
- 5Around a full-height atrium
- Amenity deck
- 25 mOn the podium roof
- Floor plate
- 29 × 22 m638 m² inside the core
- Pool
- 22 × 7 mSet back from the edge
- Walkable floors
- 20Every floor the lift serves
Counted from the tower’s own geometry, not from a specification written beside it.
One palette, two buildings
The tower is drawn from the same six finishes as the residence — the same material library, applied at a different scale.
- Honed limestone
- Podium plinth, colonnade columns, retail floorsWarm off-white, quarried in large format and laid without a border.
- Fair-faced concrete
- Podium banding, structural frameCast in place and left as struck; the formwork grain is the finish.
- Dark timber
- Apartment joinery, the fluted media wall, bedroom headboardsVertical grain on the pivot door, running its full height.
- Bronze
- Balcony fins, balustrade rails, apartment hardwareSatin rather than polished, so it reads as weight and not as trim.
- Architectural glazing
- Curtain-wall bays, balcony balustrades, the atrium roof lightSlim frames set deep in the reveal, so the glass sits in shadow.
- Book-matched marble
- Apartment kitchen islands, bathroom vanitiesVeining drawn across each slab rather than repeated between them.
18 ways in
Each opens the building on that framing, at whatever hour you choose. They are positions a person could stand in, derived from the geometry rather than placed by eye.
- 01ArrivalTwenty storeys on a five-storey retail base. The podium carries the horizontal banding; the tower above it is glass, bronze fins and a balcony on every floor.Enter this space
- 02The parkMown lawn and a coconut grove between the road and the boardwalk, with a path winding through it and beds of low planting either side.Enter this space
- 03ColonnadeThe ocean entrance, under a deep soffit carried on stone columns — the point where the beach hands you over to the building.Enter this space
- 04AtriumThe void runs the full five retail levels to a roof light set into the pool deck above. Lit coves at every floor edge do most of the work after dark.Enter this space
- 05Upper galleryThird retail level. Frameless glass at the balustrade with a bronze capping rail — the same detail the apartment balconies use, because it is the same condition.Enter this space
- 06Food hallThe food hall on the fourth retail level — a servery on the atrium with stools along it, communal tables behind, and pendants over both.Enter this space
- 07Cinema foyerThe cinema foyer at the top of the podium: a box office facing the void and the auditorium seating behind it, on the one level that needs no daylight.Enter this space
- 08Pool deckThe amenity deck occupies the whole ocean half of the podium roof, twenty-five metres up, with the pool set back from the edge so a swimmer faces the water.Enter this space
- 09GymThe gym on the amenity floor at the base of the tower, its treadmills turned to the ocean glazing and a mirrored wall behind them.Enter this space
- 10SpaThe spa on the same floor: three treatment bays off a tiled corridor, with a plunge pool and a cedar sauna at the far end against the core.Enter this space
- 11Lift lobbyThe lift lobby on the twelfth residential floor — two lifts, a glazed screen to the escape stair, and the apartment door. One arrangement, repeated on every level, because that is what a core is.Enter this space
- 12Living roomTwelfth floor. A millwork wall of open shelving either side of a fluted media panel, a dropped soffit with a cove above the seating, and the ocean glazing running away to the right.Enter this space
- 13Master bedroomThe master, behind the lounge. A fluted headboard wall, and the northern glazing running down the right-hand side.Enter this space
- 14KitchenA stone island with waterfall ends facing a run of tall units, worktop and splashback in the same slab.Enter this space
- 15BathroomVanity on the party wall with the bath freestanding in the daylight, honed stone underfoot.Enter this space
- 16BalconyTwo and a half metres of balcony, frameless glass, and the sun going down over the water. This is the view the upper floors are sold on.Enter this space
- 17From the waterThe ocean elevation from the water. The banding on the podium and the slab lines on the tower are the same idea at two different scales.Enter this space
- 18The siteThe whole site — plaza, podium, tower, deck, boardwalk and beach.Enter this space
Built before it exists
This tower has no site and no developer. That is the point of it: a building can be walked, priced and sold from a link like this one long before anything is on the ground. If that is useful to a project of yours, start here.