Citic House

The client’s brief was driven by a desire to enhance the leasing potential of the floors, create warm and inviting entry experiences, and ensure each suite offered a distinct identity while maintaining a consistent functional framework.

Working closely with the client’s leasing team, the design direction, led by the experts at IA Design, evolved suite-by-suite. Each space shared a similar planning structure, quiet rooms, open kitchen zones, and workstation layouts, but the look and feel shifted noticeably between suites. Bright palettes moved into deeper, more sophisticated tones, joinery details varied, and each suite brought its own personality to market. This diversity gave leasing teams the flexibility to appeal to a broader range of prospective tenants.

Agile delivery and adaptability were key on this project, as two of the suites were leased before handover, and both incoming tenants were able to make late-stage modifications, including reconfiguring meeting rooms, adding cabling, and adjusting layouts. These changes were incorporated seamlessly and with no cost impact, saving tenants the complexity of engaging an additional builder. 

Throughout the project, we kept the client closely involved with regular inspections, ongoing communication, and shared decision-making. In a short 8-week program, we coordinated 6 unique designs and procured the variety of materials needed to achieve this. Careful coordination and collaboration with both the designer and client were essential to ensure design intent was realised.