"We looked at a lot of different bricks for the base of the building but the Mowbray Blue* Dry Pressed brick from PGH Bricks came up best; we liked that it was a strong colour that was cool yet warm," reveals Mr Prnjatovic. "If you look at the city from that side, lots of buildings are white or creamy and we didn't want this building to get lost in that mediocrity. As well as relating to the traditional material of this part of the city, brick has that character where from the distance it's quite a monolithic material that appears as just one solid colour - but when you get closer it has a whole other quality to it; a tactile grain that the people at street level will appreciate."

"We also wanted very deep brick reveals, so it's not like a normal facade where you put the windows in and can hardly see the brick turning,"he continues. "You see a deep half metre of the brick before you see the window, which enhances the building's monolithic look; from afar it looks like a massive brick structure with the windows carved into it."