Situated on a prominent intersection in Halifax, Spring Garden West is a mixed-use development designed to provide a vibrant pedestrian streetscape and public amenity. The podium base relates to the pedestrian experience and human scale, while supporting two slender residential towers above. The masonry clad base responds directly to the orthogonal city grid, and provides continuous ground level retail on both its north (Spring Garden Road) and west (Robie Street) elevations. This ground level retail is articulated in a repeating module of recessed and protected shop entries that are flanked at the corners by residential entries to the project. Apartments occupy the second and third levels of the base and support the street level articulation via a modulated pattern of glazed bay windows. Where bay windows are absent, punched windows in the masonry provide the fine-grained backing rhythm at human scale, which is further enhanced by a trained green wall that wraps the base’s south, east and west façade balconies. The slender towers that sit atop the base respond directly to the site context and of solar orientation, employing a strategy of bays and balconies (both screened and unscreened) that wrap the rectilinear tower forms. This naturally provides more corner conditions and therefore access to light and views. A one-storey “reveal” at the base of both towers lifts them off the base, further accentuating their slender character and elegance. The tops of the towers are conceived to be ephemeral in nature, utilizing aluminum fins that align to the grain and pattern of the mullions below. The fins also screen upper terraces that form the tower body and complete the top of the tower expression.