For the SoHo hotel, Nouvel has drawn on features from adjacent buildings: scale, materials, facade proportions, cornices and so on.
At the Conde Nast cafeteria, the interest is rooted in the traditional elements of architectural form: space, shape, scale, materials, color, light and the relationships among them.
In the final environmental impact statement, completed in 2004, it said they "could be designed to appear like a neighborhood row house in height, scale, materials and colors".
Preserving the low-key qualities that make Nantucket so charming has been no easy task over the past few decades, yet efforts to enforce restrictions on the style, scale, materials and color of new construction have been largely successful.
By projecting giant images of different architectural styles and structures, she illustrated how architects can define the way we relate to buildings by creating different affects through their choice of scale, materials, shapes, decorative elements and methods of construction.
Bennett then took a two-bedroom apartment in the building, which had been serially criticized by the late architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable for its scale, materials and failure to fit in with its venerable neighbors, and transformed the space into something both elegant and unique.
