The plan for the 4 million-sq.-ft. development includes four IT office buildings, a 150-room hotel with conference center and penthouse executive club, and a central food court. A two-level underground parking podium and 11-level garage accommodates 7,800 cars and 60 buses.
The site is adjacent to the Chennai Express Highway, connecting the project to the Chennai City Center and the Chennai International Airport. The plan orients the IT buildings toward the highway and breaks up the main facade with the hotel and conference center. The parking garage behind this facade encloses the space and creates a central boulevard.
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” - Philip Johnson
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth." - Louis Kahn
"To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be." - Le Corbusier
"Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." - Frank Gehry
"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things... ...but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street." - Alvar Aalto
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." - Le Corbusier
"The towers and the bridge constitute one single, floating dynamic movement, characterized by the bold span across the harbor entrance in terms of both the plan design and the facade. Establishing a connection across the harbor radically improves public access and creates brand new opportunities for life and growth in the area."
