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AFINISHES
01 Projects

Work already standing in Karachi

Five 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, Palladiana terrazzo at Delfrio, 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.

Product categories

Concrete ranges are listed separately. Natural stone is grouped as one category.

5 projects

Naya Nazimabad Mosque clad in Botticino cream marble, minarets against a clear sky

Natural stoneMosqueKarachi

Naya Nazimabad Mosque

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.

Terrazzo reception counter at Sulafah, lit against terracotta walls and copper shelving

Terrazzo tilesRetail interiorDolmen Mall Clifton, Karachi

Sulafah

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.

Installer fixing hexagonal 3D concrete wall tiles at Bahria Town Tower

3D wall tilesTower facadeKarachi

Bahria Town Tower

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.

Optium Technologies office with a black and white Mathlath concrete tile feature wall behind the desk

3D wall tilesOffice interiorKarachi

Optium Technologies

Mathlath 3D concrete tile

This installation brings together all three Mathlath 3D concrete tile profiles: Plain, Pyramid and Prism. Set in a black and white composition, the three profiles break up the wall into one continuous geometric field, with each face catching the linear ceiling light differently. The contrast gives the office a clear visual identity, while changing highlights and shadows add depth and movement to the interior without overwhelming the desks, displays and meeting spaces in front of it.

Delfrio entrance finished with Palladiana terrazzo tiles containing grey basalt chunks

Palladiana terrazzoRestaurant interiorKarachi

Delfrio

24" x 48" tiles with chunks of grey basalt (silbatta)

Palladiana terrazzo at Delfrio in Karachi, made as 24 by 48 inch tiles with chunks of grey basalt, locally known as silbatta. The project photographs show the irregular basalt field through the entrance and circulation spaces.

02 Clients

Who has specified it

A bank, a telecom operator, a property portal, a developer and a shopping centre. Five organisations that have specified material from this works.

  • HBL logo
  • Telenor logo
  • Zameen.com logo
  • Bahria Town logo
  • Dolmen Mall Clifton logo
03 Capability

What sits behind the record

The five projects above rest on four things this company owns rather than buys in.

01Own works

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.

02Natural stone

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.

03Installation

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.

04Range of work

Mosque, tower, mall, restaurant, office

The five projects above span a mosque elevation, a mall unit, a restaurant interior, a tower facade and an office wall. Five building settings, five different demands on the surface, one works and one crew behind all of them.

04 Next

Name the building and the finish

Send the drawing, the area and the finish you are looking at, and we will come back with samples and a quote.