Starbucks Iconic Point Commercial Centre

Starbucks, Iconic Point

A Place Making in Progress

Iconic Point is located in the rapidly urbanizing Simpang Empat. Simpang Empat cries for a sustainable destination place where public, commercial and cultural activities would thrive, evolve and prosper. In Iconic Point, public and pedestrian space take the center stage and forms the center of gravity while the buildings orbit this public space. Over time, public activities would take form and structure, meandering the built structures and not merely confined within. Evolving over time and space, this public-building interaction would create a series of acts and plays that would eventually be the place identity of Iconic Point. The process of Place Making thus starts with the architecture of Iconic Point.

Starbucks Iconic Point is an integral part of this place making progress. Its architecture is a landmark within a landmark. The vision of its sculptural form and aesthetics is realised with the use of metal cladding that is easily formable into angles, bends and curves. In this case Bluescope Colorbond Matt Steel, (specifically Lysaght 360 Seam and Lysaght Spandek Optima) provided the perfect solution to realise this vision. The Lysaght cladded surfaces of the building is perceivable to be rising fluidly from the shadows on the ground. It reminisces on the scene of how the indestructible T-1000* shape-shifting liquid metal that is endlessly fusing and coagulating into forms. This is the inherent quality of Lysaght metal cladding, which allows for visions and ideas to coagulate into infinite shapes and forms.

*The robot from Teminator 2 made of liquid metal.