Paper Land Building

Paper land building is a paper company located in the industrial area around Oshodi environs, Lagos state. The building elevation has the colonial era style of design.

 

  

The width of the building is more than 55m. The building is divided into 3 segments: the first segment is a storey building with staircase attached to the building. The second segment is the company warehouse with headroom of 6.5m high, while the last segment between 5.5m to 6m high.

The first and last buildings has flat roof (mass concrete) with concrete balustrade, while the second building has an aluminum roof covering.

The elevation comprises of wide curved aluminum sliding windows with top fixed. Arches are created around the windows and doors, with decorative pillars are place in the middle of the arches and embedded inside the walls.

Then fence: pillars are spaced proportional and of equal height, width and design patterns, except for the two pillars that holds the gate, which is between 1.5 m– 1.7m longer.

The building elevation is painted all white, with the gates and window frames are black colour.

The gates are made from wrought iron and metal and it’s ornamental.

The wall of the exterior has grooves and tongues designs pattern on it, to make it more attractive.

The main entrance has an entrance porche which is been decorated with carvings. The pillars used in this building is the Corinthian order, its slender fluted columns and elaborated capitals decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls