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What was built

A retail building on a two-side-open plot on Marris Road, 2,000 sq ft per floor with four floors and a basement. The recorded brief states the design intent in commercial terms: a conventionally modern design to increase commercial activity. For a retail store the building has to read as current from the road, and the plot's two open sides gave the design the street faces to do that with.

How an engagement like this runs

A commercial engagement is paced by the market the building serves. Presentation drawings resolve the front that has to work at driving speed; working drawings then carry the floor plates, the signboard zone and the tenant fit-out logic; structural and MEP follow; supervision holds the facade and the shared services to the drawing through construction, until closure.

This is the practice’s standing method for the type, not a claim about this project. The stage sequence and payment triggers are on how we work.

Where this record stands

The practice’s archive is being documented project by project. For this entry, the record holds location, year, scale, the recorded brief, the owner-tagged archive photographs; still to be documented are the client consent that allows the story to publish.

This type of work

Shops, showrooms, office buildings and plazas, from single facades to five-floor commercial blocks.