Office

The proposed New Corporate Office Building is located along the main motorway at the entrance to the airport and will be a prominent landmark for travellers. The shape of the site favours an East/West building orientation, and also affords the opportunity to create views towards the new airport terminal and runway. The building concept and massing is fluid in shape and layout. The main office volume facing the airport terminal appears lightweight against the backdrop of the solid heat barrier walls in the West. The building set in lush landscape is designed to take full advantage of the prevailing winds through grills in the front façade. A central atrium with roof light and grills brings in natural light and evacuates hot air. The project has been registered for a green building LEED certification.

Location: Plaisance
Size: 4,538 sqm
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The site sits between the busy Phoenix – St Jean highway and the upgraded and enlarged Tulip Avenue. Ten friends joined forces to put up this 10 storey office complex close to but outside the suffocating cybercity traffic. To provide for sufficient parking besides a semi-basement car park, the building has been raised on stilts. The massing is an interesting volumetric composition of glass, solids, voids and ledges giving a vibrant play of light and shadows. The top recessed floor with generous terraces overlooking the magnificent panorama is crowned with a dynamic curved floating roof.

Location: Quatre-Bornes
Size: 9 087 m2
Collab Architect: GUSTAV VAN DER WESTHUYSEN, GEORGE GORDON, SEJAS MISTRY

The site at the extreme east corner of the Cybercity is bordered by a river with deep ravines and has magnificent views over the mountains on the north-east and over the sea on the north-west.
Bordered by two roads meeting at an acute angle, the site with an odd trapezoidal form almost dictated the design lines of the concept. The building opens itself toward the panorama, freeing a landscaped plaza at ground floor level and shields itself to the south-east winds.
A protruding fourth floor provides a majestic covering to the main entrance set in a curvilinear four storey high curtain wall. A spectacular inverted curved roof sitting on recessed duplex penthouses crowns the building.

Location: Ebene Cybercity
Size: 23,200 sqm
Collab Architect: GUSTAV VAN DER WESTHUYSEN, GUSTAV AGENBACHT, GEORGE GORDON, VED PURNENDU

The proposed New Receptorium will be located on the existing AML-VIP Lounge car park which provides adequate airside frontage and is ideally situated in front of Airplane Docking bay No 8. Guests inside the Receptorium will have a clear view of activities on the airside apron when the State Person disembarks the plane.The building concept and massing is fluid in shape. Curvilinear Alucobond cladded light roofs floating on metal supports for the main roof and the airside entrance canopy and huge glazed panels facing the apron convey to the Receptorium the same sensations one would experience in the Terminal building

Location: Plaisance
Size: 828 sqm
Collab Architect: GUSTAV VAN DER WESTHUYSEN, GEORGE GORDON, NAFEESAH KHODADEEN, KHEERTEE GUNNESS, AVISH MUNGUR, SEJAS MISTRY

The programme called for twin office development on adjacent sites in the Cybercityby two different architects. The Promoter wanted a quick return on investment through a small building designed to be built easily and rented out quickly. The design took a strong cubist inclination with a minimal and sober character. The crowning of the building has been emphasized through a floating roof on a recessed last floor. The facades are punctuated with recessed terraces to amplify the play of shadows. A dominant white colour has been used to emphasize the crispness and clarity of lines. An iconic front portico is the only element that breaks from the general cubist design.

Location: Ebene
Size:4 900 m2
Collab Architect: VED PURNENDU, VIDUSHI MUNGUR, SEJAS MISTRY

Just a few meters from busy Desforges street this 2000 m2 prime site in the CBD of Port Louis has the potential of spear-heading deep transformations in the urban fabric of this area, presently very loose but with a strong Muslim cultural influence. This visionary project comprises two levels of shops, 4 levels of parking, 11 levels of office space, 5 levels of apartments and recessed duplex penthouses with swimming pools to crown the building. The ground floor commercial space tries to recreate the open “souk” spirit of the Muslim cultural heritage and contribute to avoid over-densifying the road level footprint.The parking levels open on the sides has been screened with a “mousharabia” in precast concrete, a contemporary interpretation of traditional Arab architecture. The main body of the building, being principally office space is cladded on the South-East elevation with a huge curtain wall treated as a dramatic collapsible skin. The top apartment levels have been subdued through second skin fenestration behind horizontal bends that help to unity the building in its overall concept. The penthouse under an inverted V roof crowns the building beautifully.

Location: Port-Louis
Size: area 26 640 m2
Collab Architect: ARK ATELIER LTD - ASHWEEN RAMHOTAR,KHEERTEE GUNNESS

Mahanagar Telephone (Mauritius) Ltd, one of the major telephone operators of the island wanted to group all its services under one roof. In the Cybercity a technical building was erected in a first phase. The main building comprises a semi-basement parking and seven storeys. The building has been designed to reflect the high-tech nature of the company. Forms are clear and sharp. A large curtain wall, incorporated on the South East façade for reduced solar gain, clearly signals the corporate nature of the building. The emergency staircase has been openly celebrated. The main staircase is enclosed in anogival-shaped tower that culminates well above the building to serve as base for the telecommunication antennae.

Location: Ebene
Size: 2 870 m2
Collab Architect: VIJAY RAJ PAULRAJ, NAFEESAH KHODADEEN, GEORGE GORDON

SICOM is a very successful parastatal insurance company that needed expansion space. The project is a new 14 storey building on a site adjacent to the existing in the CBD of Port Louis. In contrast to the existing building, the design favoured a lighter façade treatment with floating planes typical of J & A’s Architecture. A play of curtain glazing, louvers for air con, ledges and planes make the building a contemporary and fresh urban icon.

Location: Port-Louis
Size: 9 500 m2
Collab Architect: NITIN BATHLA, GEORGE GORDON

The program called for a G + 14 office development with one level of parking. The building which overlooks the landmark Champ de Mars race course has been given an iconic treatment and is an amalgamation of contemporary styles of interlocking forms and floating planes. Vivid colours and fluid planes give the building a flamboyant character in an otherwise monotonous neighbourhood. The top two floors have been set-back to give a dynamic crowning to the building.

Location: Port-Louis
Size: 9,860 sqm
Collab Architect: VIJAY VAITHINATHAN, NITIN BATHLA

Falling just outside the CBD along the busy Hennessy street in Port Louis, this high rise mixed development comprises two lower commercial floors and thirteen floors of office space. Responding to a great demand for small offices for lawyers and attorneys in the vicinity of the law courts, the promoter wanted to develop flexible office floors that would respond satisfactorily to the market. The building was developed to reflect modernity and transparency – two characteristics undergirding justice with due consideration to cost effectiveness, low maintenance and sustainability. This has resulted in a balanced and economical play of void and solids organized as slits and planes, a vocabulary characteristic of our architecture.

Location: Port-Louis
Size: 6,000 sqm
Collab Architect: GEO CHAKO, NITIN BATHLA

The Nexteracom project is an ambitious 45 000 sqm office/commercial building, in which we are main consultant for the main building amongst 3 buildings and siteworks. The project has been designed with the future in mind. It is geared towards a highly developed Mauritius and fully represents the corporate image the Clients required.

Location: Ebene
Size: 25,000 sqm
Collab Architect: ASHWEEN RAMHOTAR, SOFIANE ZOUIOUECHE

The Client a South African Company established in Mauritius wanted a headquarters office building with a distinct corporate image in the new Cyber City of Ebene. The offices are of open-office type spreads over 4 storeys and services by staircase and lift organized around a three storey atrium. Generous glazing opens out onto the magnificent surrounding views. An alucobond portal sheltering a nine metre high curtain wall glazing at the entrance gives a definite corporate image to the building.

Location: Ebene
Size: 3,800 sqm
Collab Architect: ASHWEEN RAMHOTAR

A prestigious 13 storey commercial/office building just opposite Air Mauritius Medcor building right in the heart of Port Louis. Designed to be seen from all four directions at least for quite some time, this building takes advantage of its long façade along Celicourt Antelme Street to incorporate a double height commercial arcade. The emergency staircase becomes a distinct feature in the “back elevation” which is visible from the highway. The project comprises multi-storey commercial and office space with two levels for shops, two levels for parking and 10 levels for office space with an overall area of 10,000 sqm.

Collab Architect: ALOK MEHTA, ASHWEEN RAMHOTAR

After completion of Victoria House, the Client came back to us for an extension on a land adjacent to it. Generally one would be tempted to replicate the existing building but we avoided this pitfall and proposed a more modern building by picking certain characteristics of Victoria House to "blend" the two buildings.

Location: Port-Louis
Size: 5,000 sqm
Collab Architect: ALOK MEHTA

Building of Administration building for Mauritius Football Association. Building will also act as the headquarters for Football in Mauritius. 3 Football fields constructed as well to as training grounds.

Location: Trianon
Size: 890 sqm
Collab Architect: ALOK MEHTA

Refurbishment and renovation of administration offices for the Mauritius Examination Syndicat at Reduit and construction of a new administrative building ( 3000 sqm approx.). The project is designed to acquire an emphatic existence within the MES campus and boats of a very contemporary architectural vocabulary. The architectural mass splits itself into gentle planes which are all tied together with a floating concrete roof at the top. The entrance is marked in stark elegance with double height curtain glazing hitting a steel granite clad wall. The ground floor has been divided into various departments whereas first floor is mainly dedicated to finance. The second floor has offices for executives and also a database lab for institute uses.

Location: Reduit
Size: 3,000 sqm
Collab Architect: ALOK MEHTA

Refurbishment and renovation of administration offices for the Mauritius Examination Syndicate at Reduit and construction of a new administrative building ( 3000 sqm approx.). The project is designed to acquire an emphatic existence within the MES campus and boats of a very contemporary architectural vocabulary. The architectural mass splits itself into gentle planes which are all tied together with a floating concrete roof at the top. The entrance is marked in stark elegance with double height curtain glazing hitting a steel granite clad wall. The ground floor has been divided into various departments whereas first floor is mainly dedicated to finance. The second floor has offices for executives and also a database lab for institute uses.

Collab Architect: ALOK MEHTA