Environmental art, lobby installations and wayfinding for Express Towers, the landmark office building at Nariman Point, Mumbai. A single material story — gold and brass on white marble — carried from sculptural wall art to the smallest directional sign.
Express Towers is one of Mumbai's original premium office addresses, and the task ran beyond signage into the whole interior experience: the art on the walls, the feel of the lift lobbies, and the wayfinding that ties the building together. The brief was a sense of quiet wealth — present, never loud.
One material decision holds it all: gold and brass against white marble. Every piece, from a three-metre sculptural installation to a parking sign, speaks that same two-word language.
Sculpture that earns its marble.
The walls carry a family of metal installations — scattered gold leaves, a field of gilded orbs, paired wave forms, a row of sunburst clocks, and pierced geometric screens. Each is its own piece, but all share a vocabulary of warm metal on cool stone, so the building reads as a curated whole rather than a catalogue of features.
The same restraint runs into the working parts of the building: brass-lined lift lobbies, a reception counter fronted in jali, and a wayfinding set — parking, baggage scanner, floor directories — in black and gold that sits comfortably beside the art. Premium environments fail at the edges, so the edges got the same attention as the centrepieces.
