Ansals API asked us to make the Local Shopping Center in the up and coming Sushant Golf City, Lucknow, an iconic building. The brief was simple, shops on the upper and lower ground floors, with office space on rent for the two floors above. Our design response was twofold – use the naturally existing slope on the site to connect both upper and lower ground floors through gradual circulation and use the massing cleverly to maximize advertising space and hide services.

The location of the Local Shopping Center posed an interesting challenge. At the very end of a long arterial road, we imagined the building as a form which had to be bold to attract customers, yet be secretive and conceal the myriad services required for its smooth internal functioning. This idea led to the big massing move of developing ‘wings’ – bold architectural planes which beckon customers and double up as signage, lighting or select advertising space on upper floo... Read More