View and learn more about the design of offices, including medium density office buildings, high rises, small offices, firm offices, studios, refurbishments, office fit-outs, and office renovations; for case studies, precedent studies, and inspiration.
Featuring the work of renown architects SJB Architects, Guida Mosely Brown Architects, Bates Smart, PTW Architects, Spowers, Imagescape Architects, and HASSELL Architects, among many others.
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Lacoste + Stevenson Architects
Greystanes Park East, New South Wales The Recall Storage Facility is designed to contain six million A3 cardboard archive boxes, storage of which depends on the barcode to keep track of their location. So when Lacoste + Stevenson Architects began designing the Recall Storage Facility, the symbolic resonance of barcoding – signifying identification and individualisation, which forms a sound basis for any design principle – was too perfect to overlook |
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PTW Architects
Millers Point, Sydney Contemporary urban development in rich historical and cultural spaces in Sydney is a sensitive and potentially nightmarish venture; our spatial and aesthetic connection with heritage precincts is a cardinal manifestation of our unique sense of identity. PTW Architects, with their usual flair, strength and integrity, illustrate with 30 The Bond, at 30-34 Hickson Rd, Millers Point, just how seamlessly such a venture can be achieved. |
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SJB
Melbourne
Now the first building in Australia with zero emissions, the impressive 40 Albert Road's six star Green Star rating - which gives the project "world leadership" status - is attracting worldwide attention as proof that green refurbishment need not come at the expense of contemporary quality, appearance, or economic viability.
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Asymptote Architecture's latest projects - the Penang Global City Centre in Malaysia, the World Business Centre Busan in South Korea, and a luxury residential tower in the United Arab Emirates - are different to their past virtual work. These projects will be built, constructed from real materials in the real world.
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After founding the firm in 1989, Asymptote's principals, Hani Rahid and Lise Anne Couture, shot to fame almost instantly for their daring, transporting the architecture industry from paper and streetside to the more elusive theory and virtual reality.
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Imagesacape Architects
Wollongong, New South Wales What was once a tyre workshop complete with hoist, grease pit and endless racks of tyres is now a corporate headquarters and workshop for Business Machine Specialists, an IT equipment and support services company. Dubbed by the business community as the “nicest shed in town”, the 500sqm BMS Headquarters in Wollongong was a collaborative act of industrial reuse, carried out in consultation with BMS Directors and staff. |
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Richard Kirk Architect
Petrie Terrace, Brisbane
Often, the true history of a building is never discovered until the multiple characters it has accumulated over the years are stripped away, layer by layer, as an archaeologist reads the passage of time in long-forgotten stone. Such was the challenge presented to Richard Kirk Architect, in the form of the Jackson’s Warehouse building at Petrie Terrace, Brisbane, home to Boe Lawyers - the latest in a long line of tenants and dramatic events.
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Hassell
Western Australia Chemeq are an emerging Australian company with a new formula for porcine and poultry pharmaceuticals. The fast-tracked master plan for the production facility therefore required significant opportunity to expand, to cope with the projected expansion of the company’s production schedules. |
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DesignInc Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria Council House 2, which comes with a research, education and promotion component in tow, is a compendium of duplicable ideas, visibly advertising the possibilities of energy saving devices to a sceptical commercial market. It’s a long haul, higher risk public sector model for green building. The City of Melbourne, which aims to be emissions neutral by 2020, has stuck its neck out for a vision it’s passionate about, hoping others will follow. |
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Lyons
Queenscliff, Victoria The design work for the Queenscliff Centre was undertaken in 1998, just before the relatively new concept of green architecture was beginning to be brought into the mainstream, and before it was being fused with high concept and high design. It’s the first completed building to obtain a preliminary six Stars using the Green Star rating tool, yet it was drawn up long before the Green Building Council itself existed. |
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Bates Smart
Sydney
The architecture of conversion is a textured pleasure; while in renovating you’re making the building your own, the past lives of the building are nevertheless haunting. When Bates Smart outgrew their Sydney office in 2000 due to rapid expansion, the opportunity to relocate their East Sydney office to the adjacent historic building was a dream come true.
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DOS Architects is the style behind the stars - from the recording studio to the ultimate luxury resort, and the funky hip hop set design. Their flair takes centre stage all over the world, putting the swing into bus shelters, the sweetness into a day at work, and the sparkle into a concrete jungle.
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Metier3
Melbourne
KPMG gave architects Metier3 a pragmatic and symbolic brief for the refurbishment of their historic Collins Street offices, part of the old T&G Insurance Building in central Melbourne. The building’s ground-level Banking Chamber was to become the new public face and reflected image of the corporation.
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Woodhead International
Homebush, Sydney
The technology and media revolutions have finished off the old school emergency call centre. Woodhead International’s headquarters for the NSW Rural Fire Service, managing the world’s largest fire fighting force of 69 000 volunteers, marks a new generation of institutional campus in which architecture mediates, assists and represents the circulation of information.
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Bates Smart
Walsh Bay
The billion-dollar Walsh Bay development in its entirety - including the work of Bates Smart, HPA, PTW, Tropman and Tropman, and Clive Lucas Stapleton and Partners - has been awarded RAIA's national Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design.
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Eric Owen Moss
Culver City, California
Eric Owen Moss' Culver City-based firm, EOM, has set out to revitalise the rundown Hayden Tract area of Culver City. The most recent development in this ongoing project is a parking garage topped by office spaces, an exhilarating new building known as Pterodactyl, which is due for completion this year. |
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Hassell
Docklands, Victoria VicUrban opened its new head office, which turned out to be both sustainable and affordable, twelve storeys above the ongoing construction works at Docklands. Self-consciously, office architecture was being used to advertise wider ambitions for the future of Victoria. |
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People now talk of Santiago Calatrava buildings as they do of cathedrals. In presenting their 2005 Gold Medal to Calatrava, the American Institute of Architects described a "soaring structural poetry" that "elevates the human spirit". The process of sanctification was swift. It originated in America around 2004, after Calatrava revealed his design for the new $2 billion ground zero transportation hub.
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