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britishindia offices

corporate headquarters for the
britishindia clothing company.

The BritishIndia headquarters
was commissioned to house all its
needs under a single roof - its
owners, being in the business of
fashion were themselves desirous
of a fashion statement along the
lines of the industrial steel and
concrete sheds of New York. They
were given a brick shed instead.

Not any old shed however. For its
given activities having to do with
the wheelings and dealings of the
rag trade, the building was to be
a massive ark of austerity and a
convent for the redemption of sin.

Brick skirtings and tortured steel,
washrooms as altars for cleasing,
air-handling from black chimneys
and monastic brick walls, pipes in
raw for plumbing and colossal-
order downpipe colonnades all
made for an aesthetic of the
Cistercian industrial unromantic.

context

bedframe

steel entry mat

gardenshell house

system shelves

slat door

monsoon mailbox

louvrebox house

commentary

gardenwall offices

timberblind door

a/c jacket

middleearth door

lightwell house

posttensioned stair

dining table #3

biography

gardenshade shed

onion valet

britishindia offices

archiebunker chair

folding gate

bathshelf #2

bibliography

safari roof house

timber table

brickwall house

dishrack

autopsy table

folded stair

photography

contact

boardformed pool

ventblock house

steeltable

pittsburgh desk

dogconcrete house

kitchenjockey

wallpantry

bricklite house

poolplinths

gardengate

black and white house

cantilevered gate

mule system workstation

bathvalet

sibu pavilion

scrapwood pool

concretecarpet stair

fire stairfence

loftoffice

perforated bench

radiator railing

pivotgate

boardformed house

steel & white bath

brickroom

forestgrove

barnstorm house

dropbench

gnarly house

Kvadrat chaise

stacked club

mountain pool

greensplice house

threshold house

gainer mailbox