In 1973, Mahmood left the Government service and started his own architectural practice under the name of Kumpulan Senireka with a staff of 10.
This was most obvious in one of his early successes, the Bank Negara Malaysia, whose facade is made of concrete panels arranged to form strong horizontal lines with its bands of continuous windows.
Istana Darul Ehsan Located in Putrajaya, Malaysia, this palace is a royal residence for the Sultan of Selangor and it is not open to public.
The postmodern updating of the Tudor style refers to both the English colonial period, and the traditional Malay timber-frame house.
Mahmood's current company, Kumpulan Seni Reka Sdn Bhd was a part of the construction of this palace.
It is located on Jalan Sultan Salahuddin and surrounded by landmarks include Kuala Lumpur's historic center, the Dataran Merdeka and Tugu Negara.
This building represents Nik Mohamed Mahmood's initial architectural philosophy that was firmly rooted in the Brutalist strand of international modernism.
[11] This complex is now the official building for The Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department and is now located at Jalan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur opposite of the National Mosque of Malaysia.
An architect who has been active in Malaysia from the 1960s to the present, the shifts in Nik's style reflect global trends as they played out in South East Asia.
Decades later, he had abandoned that stylistic position in favour of a historicist approach, which was coincident with the appearance of postmodernism on the global stage.