Nitesh Shah and Brijesh Shah presented high-rise façade design across their built portfolio, towers from 45 to 153 metres, with Regalia at GIFT City as a case study in interlocking form, dual-frontage orientation and a unitised Schüco envelope.
High-rise façades change character with height: what works at 45 metres is not what a 122-metre tower demands in wind performance, access or buildability. Nitesh Shah and Brijesh Shah drew on a portfolio built across that whole range to show how façade decisions scale with the building.
A portfolio measured in height
The practice's work spans towers of roughly 45, 70 and 122 metres and reaches 153 metres at its tallest, across residential, retail and commercial typologies. Projects including The Capital I and II, Arjun Sky Life, V-One and The Orion sit within that band, each pairing a floor count with a façade strategy suited to its height and use.
The built work
Across Ahmedabad the portfolio mixes large retail-and-commercial blocks, several in the 440,000 to 575,000 sq ft range, with residential towers, each carrying a distinct envelope. Reading them together shows how a consistent design approach adapts to programme, plot and orientation rather than repeating a single curtain-wall detail.
Regalia at GIFT City
Regalia is the portfolio's headline case: a G+29 commercial tower of about 550,000 sq ft rising to 122 metres in GIFT City, adjacent to the GIFT One and Two towers. Its distinctive interlocking form connects terraces directly to office floors, and dual-side road connectivity drives both access and retail visibility. The envelope is a unitised Schüco system on a platinum-rated green building, delivered with a façade-consultant and applicator team coordinating supply and installation.
Form driven by the site
Form development began from the plot itself: a site with road frontage on two sides, oriented against the cardinal directions so that the envelope could respond to sun and street on each face. That early massing logic, where the building meets its roads and how it turns to the sun, set the terms the façade then had to resolve.
Landmark scale
At the top of the range, the practice served as regional architect on the Vishv Umiya Foundation Temple, a complex of roughly 940,000 sq ft rising to 153 metres, where the same façade discipline applied at the scale of a civic landmark rather than a commercial tower.
