Sophisticated hand crafted concrete tile
Four delivered projects with the finish named on each one: Botticino cream marble on a mosque elevation, polished terrazzo at a mall unit in Dolmen Mall Clifton, and Lehr and Mathlath 3D concrete tile on a tower facade and an office wall. All of it cut or cast in Karachi and laid by our own crew.
MosqueKarachi
Botticino cream marble
Botticino cream marble, supplied and cut to size for the elevations. A mosque is read from the street in full Karachi daylight, which puts every joint and every tonal shift on show, so the slabs were selected for an even cream field rather than heavy veining and run in sequence across each plane. Honed and sealed to hold that field as the sun moves around the building.
Retail interiorDolmen Mall Clifton, Karachi
Polished terrazzo
Polished terrazzo for the reception counter at Sulafah, inside Dolmen Mall Clifton. A counter in a mall unit is leaned on, wiped down and lit hard from above through every trading hour, so the terrazzo was poured and ground to an even chip field that takes a knock without showing a patch and can be repolished in place. The run was cut from a single pour, so the aggregate carries around the return without a break.
Tower facadeKarachi
Lehr 3D concrete tile
Lehr 3D concrete tile, cast at the Karachi works and fixed by our own crew. A relief tile on a tower plane earns its keep on the shadow it throws, and that shadow only reads if the depth and the pigment repeat across the whole elevation, so the tiles were cast off one mould set and batched by pour. The crew set the hexagonal grid out on site so the pattern closes cleanly at the reveals.
Office interiorKarachi
Mathlath 3D concrete tile
Mathlath 3D concrete tile, cast and laid as a triangulated relief wall in the office. An interior wall is read from close range under flat ceiling light, which is the light most likely to kill relief, so the tiles were cast deep enough to hold a shadow at low angles and finished in one pigment batch. Setting out started from the centre of the wall, so the triangles resolve symmetrically at both ends.
A bank, a telecom operator, a property portal, a developer and a shopping centre. Five organisations that have specified material from this works.
The four projects above rest on four things this company owns rather than buys in.
Poured, cured and ground in Karachi
Every concrete tile on this page was poured, cured, ground and polished at our own works. Nothing is factored in from another yard, so a batch can be held against the sample already on your desk and run again to match it.
Selected, sequenced and cut to size
Marble, granite, travertine, limestone, basalt and sandstone are supplied in slab and tile format and cut to the sizes on the drawing. Slabs are selected and sequenced before they are cut, which is what keeps a run of cladding reading as one field instead of five.
Our own crew, not a subcontractor
The crew that lays the finish works for the company that made it. That closes the gap where a specification usually goes missing, between a sample approved in a studio and a floor handed over on site, because nobody is reading the drawing second hand.
Mosque, tower, mall, office
The four projects above are a mosque elevation, a mall unit, a tower facade and an office wall. Four building types, four different demands on the surface, one works and one crew behind all of them.
Send the drawing, the area and the finish you are looking at, and we will come back with samples and a quote.