Office towers

A previous masterplan included all the office accommodation arranged in a single block, and MDO reorganized this area into 4 towers, creating more view corridors through the site and to the park, less overshadowing and better leasable office floor plates. The 4 towers are designed as two pairs that are mirrored off an existing central axis. The brief called for economic floor plates and a cost effective façade. Recesses, obtrusions, all of these would add cost; instead we decided to treat the facades as a skin which could be enriched through careful composition, proportion, and detail. The façade is vertically organized into bands, which increase in height as they rise, giving the towers a greater vertical emphasis. The curtai... More