MOB

The Mazzeh Office Building (MOB) features ten floors of first class Office spaces rising over a vast and prestigious ground floor large enough to accomodate a major bank.
With its characteristic and contemporary outlook, the MOB offers an opportunity for the company to comfort its corporate image of dynamism and modernism. The MOB volumes are easily readable. The offices section is clearly defined by a strong sculptural shape that flies over the great Hall. Designed as prestige area, the Lobby organize the circulations within a large L-shaped hall entirely surrounded by yellow-colored full-height windows, with distinctive elevators landings.

The main volume’s skin is made of white alucobond, while the south volume is covered with thin slate stone plates.
A glass curtain wall stretches over the North façade ; the other facades have cinemascope-like horizontal windows, with metal louvers acting as sunshades.
Each office floor can be easily planned in two ways: A: the glazed landing is kept public, and creates a prestige entrance for people unboarding the elevators. B: the elevators open in a shared landing situated in the middle of the building, allowing an easy distribution of all spaces ; the glazed part could then be used as an executive office.

The ground floor level connects smoothly with a carefully designed Plaza, where fountains using the same glass material are installed.
The front part, North oriented, is fully glazed using an attractive Yellow tinted glass.
The ground floor offers a prestigious Hall where stands the sculptural steel structure that supports the main part of the building (offices floors) levitating over the yellow glazed box.
This distinctive high ceiling space is a unique site. It presents a strong corporate image for both the bank and the company. Exhibitions and performances can take advantage of this highly visible landmark in the city.
Both the Hall and the elevator’s landing uses distinctive yellow glass panes which give a warm contemporary touch to the building.

The design and the location adopted for the vertical circulations in the building allows the architecture to rise with a strong verticality, avoiding the bullk proportions normally imposed by urban regulations in this area.

They also free clear and large areas, both at ground floor and office levels, and also in the underground parkings.
The play between these large vertical proportions and fine and precise architectural detailing gives the tower its unique elegance.
A technical floor between the bank level (ground floor + mezzanine) and the Office spaces underlines the separation between the two volumes, thus enforcing the strength of the composition.