Commercial · Sydney CBD

Inside a Landmark: Delivering Grosvenor Place

Sixteen levels of lift lobbies and amenities — specified, sourced and installed by Design Tiles, to a single premium standard, on time and on budget.

There's a particular pressure that comes with working inside a building everyone already knows. Grosvenor Place has been part of the Sydney skyline for decades, and the tenants who move through its lobbies every day carry a quiet expectation of quality. So when the brief landed to deliver the lift lobbies and amenities across sixteen levels, the real challenge wasn't any single space — it was holding one standard across all of them, in a live and occupied tower.

This is the kind of project we're built for. Not just a finish on a wall, but the whole job: reading the drawings, pricing it properly, sourcing the materials, guiding the layout, and installing it to a premium standard floor after floor. Here's how it came together.

How the spaces feel

Walk into one of the refreshed lift lobbies and the first thing you notice is the light. A bright, polished stone floor runs the length of the space, set against deep, richly veined walls and bronze lift doors. It's a deliberately dramatic contrast — luminous underfoot, dark and architectural at eye level — and it reads as quietly premium without ever shouting.

The amenities carry the same language in a crisper register. Light, calm floors keep the spaces feeling clean and easy to maintain, while dramatic feature walls and vanities tie them back to the lobbies. Brass tapware, vessel basins, back-lit mirrors and concealed lighting do the finishing work — the kind of detail tenants register without quite being able to name it.

The part most people never see

The finished spaces are the easy bit to admire. What actually determines whether a commercial project succeeds happens long before anything is installed — and it's where an experienced team earns its keep.

It starts with the specification and the quote. We read the drawings, scope every level, and price the full specification accurately, so the client knows exactly what they're getting and what it costs — no surprises halfway through. From there it's sourcing: using long-standing supplier relationships to bring in the right materials at the right price, balancing quality against budget across a project of real scale.

Then comes the layout and design consultation — guiding setout and material direction so every space resolves properly and reads consistently floor to floor — and finally the installation, handled by our own teams. That last point matters more than it sounds: when the people pricing and sourcing the job are the same people setting it out and finishing it, you avoid the gaps that creep into commercial work. The standard on level 24 matches the standard on level 3, because one accountable team carried it the whole way.

"Most suppliers understand the product. Most contractors understand the install. Delivering a whole building to a single standard — on time and on budget — takes a team that does both."

On time, on budget, one standard

Sixteen levels, completed across two tranches, in a building that never stopped operating. Coordinating that — staging the works, keeping the tower running, holding the same quality bar on every floor — is the genuine challenge of large-scale commercial work. It's less about any one material and more about trust: a client handing over a significant, visible job to a team that has done it before, and getting it back finished, consistent, and on budget.

That's the outcome we're proud of here. Not a product list — a building delivered, and a client confident it was in the right hands.