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Interior Design Vivid Architects collaborated with Savile Row interior design consultants and the client in formulating the interior design solutions . The architects crafted all the external architecture , the overall mall layouts , primary ceiling designs , the shopfronts and bulkheads , with Savile Row designing finishes to mall bulkheads , tile selection , public toilets , mall furniture , feature cladding and demising columns as well as feature node mobiles . A feature suggested by the client and incorporated by the design team was the inclusion of 4K LED screens surrounding the three lift cores in the primary nodes . These screens are dynamic and allow the possibility of changing visual content in an entertaining format .
Nautical Flavour When Savile Row were approached by Zenprop to design the interior spaces for Table Bay , the mall ’ s architectural contemporary nautical design language had been initiated by the architects . Working with Vivid , Savile Row sought to respond to this concept by creating a palette of complementary , honest interior materials and a family of considered details that imply ‘ maritime ’ in a contemporary manner .
Nautical and natural elements of the ocean are referenced in materials , colours , forms , suspended mobiles , light and texture , but always in a modern interpretation of the elements , and completed with modern finishes that were chosen for aesthetic as well as practical reasons .
The use of a series of suspended white curved forms , juxtaposed against glass skylights and sinuous ceilings , are a rendition of a boat ’ s wake which create a visual rhythm and act as a subtle directional cue for visitors . At the main central entrance into the mall , a portal entrance frames this view down to the main central court where a skeletal boat hull is suspended in mid air . The ceiling form is evocative of a flowing shoreline that draws the viewer ’ s eyes up to the ceiling . This is the setting for the central event space , which was designed to allow for a high level of versatility in terms of sightlines , finishes and lighting .
Distinctive Courts The mall is divided into three distinct court areas , where customers are invited on a journey of discovery , as each court has its own feature mobile , inspired by sealife , boats and kites . A unique feature to the mall are the digital walls surrounding the lift cores , where ‘ undersea ’
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