GIA

There aren’t many commodities as rare or precious as diamonds. Just ask GIA – a global organisation that specialises in diamond grading services.

Serving millions of customers since 1931, GIA has an extensive network of laboratories. Now expanding into The Emirates, they set their sights on Uptown Tower, Dubai.

Our brief was to create a state-of-the-art office and laboratory across two floors totalling 40,000 square feet.

Bespoke from top to bottom, a project of this size and scale presented a set of unique challenges that demanded a unique approach.

The biggest of all was drilling through the floor to...