Icon Bali

Icon Bali — IADA 2025 award

Icon Bali received Platinum Winner recognition at the International Architecture & Design Awards 2025 in Commercial & Retail Architecture. Project status, design team and credits are listed alongside the presentation.

About the project

Icon Bali

Location: Sanur, Bali, Indonesia
GFA: 55,000m² (incl. parking facilities)
NLA: 30,000m²

Grand Opening December 2024

Experience A Seamless Beachfront Retail & Entertainment Village.

Icon Bali is the first real lifestyle, culture and retail center in Sanur, Bali. Comprising of 8 Iconic features to attract domestic and international customers.
Our team designed the entirety of the project – architecture, interior design, sustainability design, landscape design and branding. This allowed the individual design disciplines to seamlessly work together to create something truly unique. This can be seen in the way the landscape design is fully incorporated into the architecture and interior design.

The unique facade takes inspiration from the landscape, flora and fauna of Bali with the forms of the main facade being inspired by terracing rice paddies, a banana leaf (daun pisang), a frangipani (kamboja) and a snake fruit (salak). The Interior’s planter boxes and hanging gardens further emphasize and define the spatial qualities of the atrium.

At the center of the development is ‘Jaje’, the first floating market in a retail center in Indonesia, which seamlessly opens to the beach and sea. ‘Jaje’ brings the outside-inside experience, and is a place for visitors to taste the flavour’s of the archipelago without having to commit to a full sit-down meal in a restaurant.

The single corridor layout is a seamless transition from indoor retail to gourmet restaurants with al fresco dining to the beach. The customer corridors have been designed to be column free so there are clear views of all tenants throughout the center. A customer friendly journey that is efficient and easy to navigate with views of the stunning beachfront.

Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) strategies were implemented throughout the development. The east façade opens to the beach allowing fresh air circulation from the sea into the building and creating views of the seaside from the building. The main roof has arched windows allowing natural sunlight into the corridor which allows real planting within the retail center. The thatch roof is a synthetic rattan material made from locally recycled plastics. The water feature of ‘Jaje’ functions as a sustainable system by cooling the building and thus reducing the usage of mechanical cooling systems.

The retail center had it's grand opening in December 2024 with one hundred percent tenant occupancy. Visitation has exceeded expectation from 20,000 to 35,000 daily visitors. The influx of visitors has given a tremendous economic boost to the local businesses in the area. The development is built in Sanur but has been able to build Sanur to a premier destination for the island of Bali.

The result is a building like no other in the world.

McKingley + Team Architects (PT. Mitra Tenaga Andalan)

MCKINGLEY + TEAM ARCHITECTS (PT. Mitra Tenaga Andalan)
McKingley + Team Architects is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and is an unique blend of foreign and local architects, interior designers, urban planners and researchers. With this mix MTA understands the local conditions for developments while maintaining an international standard of design.
MTA uses detailed market analysis as a guiding principle to create developments which are in line with the end user. Environmental sustainability is a key principle for MTA in creating sustainable and long lasting projects for clients and users.
MTA is a specialist in retail developments and place making. MTA has worked on over seventy retail projects. The work has included the full range of architectural, interior and landscape design services as well as the creation and implementation of successful retail strategies. Retail strategies when implemented can be seen in the sustained success of Lombok Epicentrum Mall and Icon Bali to name a few.