HQ27

Gurugram, India

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HQ27

Gurugram, India

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ACPL Design

Type

Commercial › Office Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

This Grade-A Office Landmark Features a Staggered Profile to Assert Its Place on the Gurugram Skyline

Gurugram’s Sector 27 sits at the centre of its established commercial district, dominated by clusters of residential, office, and mixed-use development. Workspaces here are typically housed within single-use office blocks with limited engagement at street level. ACPL’s design for HQ27, through its campus-planning, landscaped plaza, and layering of programmes, subverts the idea of an insular office block and brings the neighbourhood into its fold.

The brief for HQ27 was to build a large-scale Grade A corporate office, designed to attract premium tenants and command a distinctive presence in an increasingly crowded skyline. The project is designed as an integrated workplace ecosystem rather than a standalone office tower. Positioned strategically between Gurugram’s Iffco Chowk and Millenium City Centre metro stations, the site sits within a well-established commercial and residential catchment. The design of the campus aims to redefine tenant expectations through its spatial quality, operational efficiency, and public engagement.

The primary design intervention was to concentrate the built area into a compact vertical footprint, freeing the ground plane to create an expansive public space. This move also ensures better access to light and ventilation, while distinguishing the building from its neighbours.

A landscaped arrival plaza mediates between the city and the building, and spill-out seating extends the public realm inward. Vehicular and service movement is segregated and resolved at the periphery, leaving a clear pedestrian axis from entry gate through landscaped buffer to lobby—rather than the abrupt shift between public and private that characterises many office complexes.

Numerous iterations of the building’s massing were explored; the final form carves out small setbacks and protrusions on the fifth and ninth floors that break the tower's vertical uniformity. This singular, definitive gesture of offsetting the facade lends the building a legible three-dimensional identity from the primary approach roads.
The decision to design a staggered profile was as much functional as it was formal. The lower floors feature retail and entertainment amenities that activate the street edge and converse with the plaza; the central section contains areas for socializing and dining, while the upper floors accommodate offices. Everything else—the curtain wall grid, the floor plate planning, and the material palette—is simple and pared back, allowing that single gesture to carry the building's presence on the skyline.

The office floors are designed around the requirements of large corporate tenants. Floor plates of approximately 30,000 to 35,000 sq ft can function as single-tenant headquarters or subdivide for multi-tenant occupation, with a centralised core that maximises usable area and planning flexibility. A five-storey atrium admits daylight deep into the building, while breakout terraces at the staggered levels extend the workplace beyond the floor plate.

The facade is a high-performance curtain wall system using reflective double-glazed units with low-E coatings, a direct response to Gurugram's intense solar conditions. The glazing ratio is calibrated to balance daylight penetration against heat gain. The recessed and cantilevered volumes provide passive self-shading at key elevations, reducing direct solar exposure during peak summer months without compromising the interior quality of light.

The building is designed to Seismic Zone V standards and is one of the first commercial buildings in India with friction dampers integrated into the structural system. HQ27 is LEED Gold certified, with rainwater harvesting, photovoltaic arrays, and an intelligent building management system supporting its long-term operational performance.

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HQ27

Gurugram, India

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Magnum Global Park

HQ27

Gurugram, India

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