New South Wales
Transurban’s new workplace, located in Sydney’s Poly Centre, achieves elegance by focusing on the essentials only. The base building architecture with its long, skinny floorplates, double height spaces and large concrete buttresses helped us to derive three interior principles.
1.Focus on simple but strong ideas, to sit cohesively within the base building.
2.Play with volume and shape, to buffer the space and create key moments of welcome and effect.
3.Prioritise the workzones to have just as much intent and impact as front of house spaces.
The client floor avoids embellishment, instead demonstrating a few bold moves from the moody arrival in the lift lobby to the impressive glass conference rooms. A simple stair connects to the work floors below, where workstations are reduced in density and illuminated by diffuse light. The interior cleverly integrates a material palette that speaks to Transurban’s portfolio Sydney stone, concrete, steel and digital artworks.
Commendation for Interior Architecture
Exceptional integration and design of lighting, unexpected compression and release strategies, and a creative use of materials are just some of the aspects that make this project an outstanding example of interior workplace design.
Abstract light-filled lanterns complement the rugged materials and textures that reference the client’s earth works.
The overall layout, material detailing, and digital artwork integrations are skillfully executed.
The project successfully integrates the strong identity of the client and the existing architectural shell in a sophisticated design.
Transurban is acutely aware of design. We design roads and technology, focused on real benefits and the future. Embedding our purpose and values in our new Sydney workplace required a design that’s pure and confident. Our fitout does this it works with the elegance of Poly Centre’s architecture, while deftly weaving in the spaces we need to support our ambition. It cleverly integrates materials that make sense to us: Sydney stone, concrete, steel and even technology used to express our assets as art. The design is simple but good. In this way, it is enduring, much like our organisation.
Active Metal, Stair
Arcadia, Landscape Consultant
Blackett Maquire + Goldsmith, PVA
CI Group, Specialist Technology
Electrolight, Lighting Consultant
Evolved Engineering, MEP
Group DLA, DDA/BCA
MBM, Quantity Surveyor
NDY, AV and Security
Pulse White Noise, Acoustic Consultant
Scarelli, Joinery
Sharrock Design, Graphics and Wayfinding
SpaceSuit + Co, Screen Art
WSP, Structural and Fire Engineer
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