Burger King, Knutsford Boulevard, Jamaica

This site required an office building designed to accommodate a Burger King restaurant on the ground floor. The challenge was to provide equal accessibility to both office and restaurant on a site only 9.9 meters in frontage.

Our first objective was to break the rhythm of the adjacent building facades along the main strip, so as to allow our building to command and sustain a visual dominance along the competitive boulevard.

Visibility therefore became a major concern both externally and internally. As a result, extensive application of glass was used and supported by aluminum sun screens designed from a local extrusion of fixed
louver blades.

The lot size and special restrictions were overcome with the introduction of steel framing as an alternative to the traditional structural solution. The use of steel as structural material allowed us not only to reduce the construction period, but also to achieve a light and spacious design.