Just as the first project by VINCI Construction Grands Projets at Kota Kinabalu, Plaza Shell, was nearing completion, the Jesselton Group entrusted us with a mandate to develop a 125,000-m² building with a residential and retail vocation. The building is located on the seashore at Kota Kinabalu, on the northern coast of the island of Borneo, and features a 7-storey podium over two underground levels that will accommodate a 20,000-m² shopping centre and more than 900 parking spaces as well as a complex consisting of three 20-storey residential towers with a total of 333 apartments.

The Ashgabat cinema is the first 3D cinema hall in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat on Magtymguly Avenue near the Köpetdag stadium. This was a design-build project for the construction of a 2D cinema hall with 500 seats and a 3D cinema hall with 70 seats, a café with a capacity to hold 50 people, a cyber café, two shops and an office area for the cinema operators. Inaugurated on 29 June 2011, it was the country’s first 3D cinema.

Palac Tesnov is a two-building complex consisting of 6 storeys connected by a walkway. It is located in the Karlin district in Prague and features 14,000 m² of office space as well as 4,000 m² of retail space. This project was yet another opportunity for VINCI Construction Grands Projets to work with the city of Prague, where the Company had already built, in proximity to Palac Tesnov, the Hilton Hotel and the Florenc building.
In fact, this project is part of an ongoing relationship with Prague: it is the Company’s seventh achievement in the Czech capital in only fifteen years.

Berjaya Times Square, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was at the time of its construction in 2003 the largest residential and shopping complex in Southeast Asia.
The building consists of two 46-storey towers (200 m) which occupy more than 250 metres. They house at least 800 shops, 1,200 flats, 65 restaurants, 48 lifts, 5,000 parking places, 9 cinemas as well as an amusement park with a roller coaster ride of more than 800 metres.

On 15 April 2001, just two years after the first stone was laid, the World Trade Center Abu Dhabi was ready to be opened to the public. Located in the city centre, this 220,000 m2 mall has seven levels, two of which are dedicated car parks with 2,300 spots. This turnkey design and build contract also included external roadworks and various other networks. One of the main challenges that we had to tackle during the course of this project was the particularly short deadline given: only 24 months for such a large-scale project.

With 47,000 visitors on the first day of the successful inauguration of the Dannubia shopping centre in Bratislava, VINCI Construction Grands Projets was once again approached to design and build a shopping centre in Slovakia.
The company signed a contract with Carrefour in 2000 to build the Cassovia shopping centre in Košice, the second-largest city in eastern Slovakia. The first stone was laid on October 24, 2000. The project was delivered in June 2001, and the centre was opened to the public in August 2001.

After restoring Line 1 of the Saint Petersburg metro, VINCI Construction Grands Projets went back to the same city to build a shopping centre. Located on one of the main thoroughfares of the city, the Raduga shopping centre in Saint Petersburg occupies a 25-hectare site. This project consisted of a design-build mandate as well as the commercialisation and operation of an 80,000-m2 shopping complex including a REAL hypermarket, an OBI home improvement shop, a multiplex, a merchant gallery, and 3,500 parking spots. Situated 7 kilometres from the centre and close to the airport, the building was opened to the public on April 25, 2007.

The Myslbek, located in Prague’s historical Old Town, is a high-end building consisting of office space and shops. The building features 6 storeys of usable area and 4 levels of underground parking with a total of 300 spaces. 
The building covers a total area of 44,000 m², including 17,600 m² of office space, 6,400 m² of retail space, and 1,100 m² of public walkways.