Ibraheem Hassan

The Axis Al-Rimal

A commercial building with active ground-floor retail and premium office levels above, shaped by shop-module clarity, façade rhythm, parking logic and authority coordination.

  • Retail
  • Offices
  • Façade design
  • Authority coordination
Location
Al Rimal, Riyadh
Programme
Ground-floor retail, offices above
The commercial building by day, a run of glazed shopfronts with signage zones under a clean office mass.
Retail frontage by day

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Retail frontage

The façade balances repetitive storefronts, signage zones, decorative screens, stone and plaster contrast, and visible night lighting.

Evening view along the street frontage, shopfronts lit beneath the office levels.
Street frontage
The building at night from the corner, illuminated signage bands and lit retail units.
Night retail identity

02

Plans & section

Rendered plans from site to roof — the shop row and parking at ground level, five offices on the first floor and three more at roof level between terraces — with the section through the retail base and office floors.

Site plan showing the roofs and terraces of the building, parking on three sides, guard booths at the entrances and the telecom tower plot in the corner.
Site plan
Ground floor plan: the row of shop units facing the street parking, rows of parking behind, the stair and lift core, and the telecom tower plot.
Ground floor plan
First floor plan: five offices along the frontage above the shops, opening onto the ground-floor roof terrace.
First floor plan
Roof-level plan: three further offices around the core, with the first-floor roofs as terraces at either end.
Roof floor plan
Long drawing through the building showing the retail base and the office levels above.
Section

03

From plot to frontage

A short film of the building rising from the empty plot to the finished shopfronts and offices.

From empty plot to finished frontage, 20 s