Diamond Bank acquired a property on Adeola Odeku Street in Victoria Island. The property was originally designed for residential use. The building had just been vacated by another bank and we were asked by Diamond Bank to convert it for their use.

The conversion of residential buildings to commercial developments is a subjective and controversial matter that is presently under serious debate in planning and architectural circles.

The design consideration was conceptual, although a previous branch designed by the firm, in Isolo was more monumental than modern, given that this branch was to rely more on modern day Information technology infrastructure. The span was inspired by an earlier design for an airport terminal building in lagos.This concept became a prototype 1 for four other branches in Warri, Enugu, Abuja and PortHarcourt.

Our firm was also awarded to design and build three smaller branches which became the second prototype 2 for barnches in Abakaliki, Umuahia and Jos.

The total floor area covered is approximately 670 square meters. The property was taken over by the main contractor and work started in June 1999. The project was completed just below N40million ($400,000.00). This cost is almost equally divided between civil works and services. The services covered include air-conditioning, structured cabling, lightening protection, close-circuit television, PABX, neon lights, vault doors, generators, telecommunications and transformer.