The brief for Fujitsu’s new Melbourne Docklands office stipulated a flexible workspace for the collocation of multi-disciplinary teams with a state of the art Digital Media Centre and customer services facilities, all meeting a 6 Green Star sustainability rating. The design concept impacts minimally on the base building and integrates innovation and the use of built fabric to create a workplace that is welcoming, fresh, relaxed and open. The space works toward collaborative work practises and uniformity of workspace with greater administrative efficiencies. The fitout is not only a benchmark for sustainable design but also for the design of Fujitsu’s future global workplace.

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Red Bull’s new home was to be designed to support their brand values of being exciting and energising. The company was challenged to rethink the notions of a contemporary office, resulting in the birth of ‘Red Bull Town’. The ‘town’ was built in two connected heritage buildings, and includes a roof top bar, cricket pitch and informal meeting rooms, creating a truly exciting workspace. The diversity of the facilities and their respective locations are designed to encourage impromptu interaction and collaboration.

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The Booz & Company workplace design is driven by the need for high levels of flexibility and the active promotion of the work environment, while also meeting sustainability objectives. Integral to the design is the open-plan spatial arrangement, with quiet areas, collaborative areas, multiple entries and a collapsible boardroom. A careful lighting strategy, finely tailored joinery and furniture, and timeless materials and finishes, including full height statueario marble and specialty timbers, enhance the fitout. Iconographic forms differentiate areas of passage and revised company branding is incorporated.

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The head office of SKM, a diverse engineering company, was refurbished to accommodate all staff on the one site, with additional new space also fit out. The open plan environment provides efficiency of space and supports connectivity. Flexibility is facilitated by generic floor plates and a single style of workstation, with an adjustable kit of parts to suit individual users. Circulation routes throughout the centralised built zones and perimeter workstations are deliberately designed to culminate at interactive zones that combine meeting and breakout spaces.

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HASSELL’s non-traditional design for the National Foods building reflects the company’s aspiration to remain connected to the land as well as the people involved in the process of creating food. The building is intended to bring staff and products together, both literally and figuratively. A six-storey spiral staircase is a metaphor for pouring milk and promotes collaboration between staff on different levels. Sculptural plant walls signal a connection with nature, but also assist in improving indoor air quality and staff wellbeing. The reception is visually linked to a testing kitchen, giving visitors the opportunity to observe National Foods’ endeavours.

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Amcor’s move away from being a silo-based organisation to a unified, modern business, led the company to inhabit a $6 million workspace. In response to the building’s deep floor plate, large core and multitude of columns, curved lines detail many of the built zones, allowing a sense of “discovery beyond”. A different palette of materials for each business unit provides each with a sense of identity. Timber, metal and glass in the reception areas replicate the core materials of Amcor’s product lines.

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Refurbishment of a building such as 31 Queen Street must renew commercial viability and asset value by ensuring future occupancy. Externally, the installation of a sculptural canopy provides the building with a new identity. Designed in association with Dan Templeman, the pure abstraction form flows yet “critiques” the geometry of the existing building. Internally, a folding wall of Corian and internally-lit perforated metal panels surround and reinvigorate the core. The wall punches out into the street, creating impact and providing connection to the outside.

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Westpac’s new 8,000m2 metropolitan contact centre explores the notion of transitional space in a flexible ‘landscape of contrasts’. Shifting away from a pure processing environment, the future focused solution is a hybrid contact and operations knowledge centre that provides greater customer value. The design activates horizontal and linear communities, creating local neighbourhoods that encourage collaboration, teaming and knowledge sharing, supported by zones to enable active mentoring and development. Shared spaces have been created with magnified themes to establish a clear definition from work areas. Work points have been rationalised and an adaptable benching system introduced.

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QIC wanted a workplace that allowed differentiation to exist between groups while creating physical linkages between business units. This was achieved by linking the floors and informal brainstorming areas through interconnecting stairs. QIC view themselves as a ‘village of boutiques’ and this was a key point of inspiration for the design solution.
The importance of expressing the unique characters of these ‘boutiques’ was emphasised by the representation of the structure and diversity of the organisation through the space.

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The design solution for the offices of Aristocrat, a technological and services provider to the gaming industry, creates delineated yet similar spaces, connected thematically. The ground floor houses the reception, meeting rooms, showroom and client breakouts. The concept of natural elements——earth, fire, water, and wind—are cut vertically through the building’s work floors. A concurrent horizontal concept employs darker elements at the core of each floor, gradually lightening towards the perimeter. Natural colours are picked up in feature carpet strips, graphics, workstation screens and furniture

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The design for Australia’s first six-star office building had to align with Google’s company culture, but at the same time be uniquely Australian and as sustainable as possible. Apart from the open plan workstations, ‘Googlers’ can work in 11 different wireless spaces, such as tents, tree houses, rainforests, winter gardens or even ‘under the sea’. The uniquely Australian video conference room appears to be entirely upside down with an electronically inverted image, so that Sydney ‘Googlers’ appear to be on the ceiling or ‘downunder’.

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Design services were needed for the company’s new Australian headquarters, with key visual references used to reflect the Group’s mining and resource activities. The inter-tenancy stair and exposed services represent a mine shaft, while a metal screen finished in anodised mineral shades reinforces the organisation’s core mining metals. The new minerals are represented by lighting on the corridor walls, which can be set to match the corporate colour scheme and visually warm or cool the space, depending on external weather conditions.

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