Mesk Al Barari Office

A head office on Sheikh Zayed Road for a company that trades in automotive spare parts — a business built on inventory, warehouses and volume, asking for a floor that looks nothing like any of it.

That gap is the brief. A representative office is where a supplier stops being a catalogue and becomes a company you sign with, so the 160 square metres are given over to the rooms where that happens rather than to desks. The detailing is deliberately quiet: at this altitude on Sheikh Zayed Road the view does the work, and an interior that competes with it only looks nervous.