Leonie Condotel comprises a 25-storey block of residential units with three basement car parks, a swimming pool and tennis/squash courts. The project takes an evolutionary step in deriving new aesthetics for high-rise residential blocks. In addition to the customary way of dealing with the block as though it were composed of smaller units, this design attempts to see whether such an approach can be realised using traditional principles of composition.
Leonie Condotel reads as a group of loosely put-together pavilions but the principle of the tripartite division of base, middle and top is deployed in every pavilion. The podium with its ornamented and arched openings offers a human scale and seats the building comfortable on the ground, while in the central body of the scheme, blank walls between windows are treated as decorated giant pilasters and the last two floors on the top containing penthouses with their pitched roof, pedimented gables and giant orders crown the block as "temples" in the sky.
