THIS IS THE PLACE || This Architectural Artwork Turns a 210-Metre Building into a New Landmark in Mumbai
You can’t miss it.
For those of us who use landmarks for wayfinding instead of a map, we’re in luck.
Giles Miller Studio has created its largest artwork to date, and wrapped it around the corner of a 50-storey skyscraper in Janata Nagar, Mumbai. The artwork stands at over 42-metres tall and marks the corner of a new residential development in South Mumbai with an engineered textural display which serves as a place-maker as well as a bold architectural intervention.
The artwork is wrapped around the 50-storey residential tower.
The piece itself turns the corner of the 210m tall building into a 3-dimensional chevron which points downwards, acclaiming the location of the building to distant viewers across the city of Mumbai. The aesthetic is generated by giant angled ‘combs’ which glide around the radiused corner of the structure and, in doing so, invert their tone by way of the artist’s distinctive use of material composition.
Giles Miller had previously worked with clients Shapoorji Pallonji and the Dilip Thacker Group, creating a one-off walnut bar front for the penthouse at the famous Imperial Twin Tower development just adjacent to the new building. Their collaboration continues with this latest project, which was designed by Giles and his team in London but fabricated locally in Mumbai by specialist facade engineers.
With this stunning and unique facade, visitors to the city will be able to orient themselves using this new iconic landmark.
The artwork viewed from afar.
Photography by Edvinas Bruzas
