Platinum Square

Located in Marathahalli, Bengaluru, the project occupies a highly visible site along the Outer Ring Road, with the proposed Blue Line Metro running directly in front and a predominantly low-rise residential context around it. This setting presents both opportunity and constraint: exceptional connectivity and commercial prominence on the one hand, and the demands of primary and secondary nala buffers, aviation height restrictions, and setback requirements on the other. Rather than treating these conditions as limitations, the proposal uses them to shape a more deliberate and resilient commercial address.

The development is organised as a single office tower rising above three basement levels and a ground-plus-twelve-storey commercial stack, reaching 53.6 metres within the permissible HAL height limit. Typical gross floorplates of approximately 86,650 square feet, with an efficiency of 89 percent, allow the tower to accommodate large occupiers while retaining the flexibility for multiple tenancy configurations. Parking for 1,200 cars is resolved below grade, while arrival, reception, food and beverage, amenities, and landscaped spill-out spaces are carefully composed at ground and podium levels to create a daily experience that is both efficient and more graciously ordered.

Its most distinctive move lies in the treatment of the southern edge along the nala. Rather than leaving this as residual setback, the design recasts it as a layered ecological corridor, with bioswales, native planting, shaded promenades, and microclimatic buffers that mitigate odour, noise, and heat while giving the building a more considered relationship to its surroundings. Landscaped refuge terraces and a crowning climatic terrace extend this environmental logic upward, allowing the tower to be read not simply as an efficient office building, but as a workplace shaped by ecological intelligence as much as by commercial performance.