Brief
A board-ready HQ that doesn’t freeze the team it belongs to.
Two floors had to deliver a credible enterprise headquarters — a serious lift lobby, a calm boardroom, a 120-seat town hall — without locking the working floors into rigid layouts that would age in 18 months. The flexibility had to be designed in, not improvised later.
Site reality
A high-rise tower with logistics constraints.
Marathon Futurex’s service lifts, working-hours rules, and the elevator schedule for materials movement set the build’s real critical path. Every long-lead item, every joinery batch, and every glass panel was sequenced against the goods-lift booking calendar before procurement was released.
Design response
A formal spine. A flexible perimeter.
The HQ runs on a single ceremonial spine — lift lobby, reception, boardroom, town hall — that holds the public image of the company. Off that spine, the working floors break into reconfigurable neighbourhoods on raised flooring, with smart-building MEP, in-room AV, and centrally managed lighting scenes.
Execution
Logistics-led sequencing, daily reporting, smart-building commissioning.
Eighteen acoustically rated rooms — boardrooms, calls, recorded-meeting, town hall — were sequenced against the tower’s lift schedule. A smart-building BMS layer was integrated and commissioned before move-in: lighting scenes, HVAC zoning, room booking, occupancy.
Result
Delivered on time vs 90-day SLA. Board meeting in week one.
All 18 acoustic rooms commissioned and signed off before keys were handed over — zero IT punch list on move-in day. The board met in the boardroom in week one, the town hall ran a 110-person all-hands the week after. Smart-building BMS handed operations a single pane of glass for lighting, AC, and room booking from day one. Cost closed within fixed-price contract with no variations.