Ground — Arrival
The Art of Arrival.
From the drop-off to the lobby, arrival is composed as a sequence — light, stone and quiet warmth.
01The approach
On Bourdillon road, held between the podium and columns.
You turn onto the road and the city drops away. The drive is screened, the canopy takes the light down, and the tower is no longer something you look at — it is something you are already inside.
The forecourt is deliberately unhurried. Cars stop under cover. Stone continues from the drive across the threshold and into the lobby without a change of material, so the building never announces where outside ends.
02The threshold
A single stone, laid without a break through the doors. Bronze at the ironmongery, timber to the reveals, nothing else.
03The lobby
Light, stone and quiet, in that order
Double height, shaded, quiet. The desk sits to one side rather than in the middle of the room, so the space reads as a hall and not as a reception.
The ground floor is set as a shaded plinth. The podium is screened rather than glazed, which keeps the forecourt cool through the day and gives the tower a base heavy enough to carry twenty-four storeys above it.
- Level
- Ground
- Approach
- Covered
- Podium
- Screened
