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The client pushed the idea of a civic project further by adding exhibition spaces, incubator hubs, cafes and general gathering areas outside of their own office requirements.

Yirranma Place by SJB

Yirranma Place in Sydney is a skilful exercise in adaptive reuse, guided by SJB. The design’s two overarching principles – sensitivity and respect – help to create a multifunctional workplace in a grand 1920s building.

Interiors
The tower is part of Sydney’s Quay Quarter – a new, integrated, mixed- use precinct containing offices, apartments, retail, restaurants and public space.

Upcycling the highrise: Quay Quarter Tower

Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower shows that with planning foresight, architectural ingenuity and engineering rigour, even the most complex of existing buildings can be transformed to extend its life.

Commercial, Residential
A draped linen curtain arc can be closed for instant privacy for solo work, or drawn open to produce an informal meeting space or reception.

Humanizing the office: Johnson Partners

YSG

In this Sydney office for a boutique consulting firm, YSG has replaced the sobriety of conventional corporate highrise offices with sculptural details and bold, expressive gestures.

Commercial, Interiors
In the reception area, Australian hardwood timber battens curve around the reception desk.

Modern layering: Aje Headquarters

In Sydney, Those Architects has carefully removed layers to unearth the beauty and understated identity of this original building, and in turn defined it as the headquarters of a contemporary Australian fashion house.

Interiors
The shelves in between the desks accommodate a collection of white study models.

Self expression: Smart Design Studio office

The new office of Smart Design Studio, in an industrial heritage conservation precinct in Sydney, is a sustainable, sculptural building purpose-built for the studio’s ambitions and practice.

Commercial
Smart Design Studio collaborated with the University of Technology Sydney to achieve the parametric vaults.

Parametric pursuit: Stokes 14

In an inner-city Sydney suburb of urban renewal, Smart Design Studio has made the most of the opportunity to re-imagine its own workspace, experimenting with materials and geometries to create a beautiful place in which to work and live.

Commercial
In keeping with the Incu visual language, materials such as timber, brick and terracotta allow the clothing to be drawn to the foreground.

‘A better way’: Incu HQ and Outlet

Akin Atelier

Tasked with creating a retail space, head office and warehouse for contemporary fashion brand Incu, Akin Atelier has transformed an old mechanic’s workshop in Sydney into a space that embodies fashion, design and expert workmanship.

Commercial, Interiors
A generous multi-functional library is large enough to accommodate events and meetings alongside essential day-to-day amenity.

Crafted modernism: SJB Sydney Studio

When SJB embarked on a major redesign of its Sydney studio, it was a unique opportunity to create an authentic and friendly workplace that fostered equity, creativity and a sense of pride and belonging for all.

Commercial
The oversized arches, with their black mullions and dark glass, recall both Louis Sullivan’s National Farmers’ Bank of Owatonna and the Harbour Bridge.

Recalling bygone grandeur: Rail Operations Centre

Memorializing the tectonics of tunnels, bridges and nineteenth-century suburban train stations, this red-brick, big-box building in inner-city suburban Sydney is a rich form of infrastructure architecture that represents an investment in workers and in the area’s rapidly changing urban fabric.

Commercial
Reflecting the honesty inherit in Brutalist design , an exposed ceiling grid defines the public spaces.

Evocative and engaging: Town Hall House

In an iconic Brutalist building in Sydney, Smart Design Studio has designed a workplace for City of Sydney staff that allows them to engage with visitors and breaks down barriers.

Interiors, Public / cultural
Located between a terrace house and an industrial brick warehouse in Sydney’s Surry Hills, the Beehive explores the use of recycled terracotta tiles – an often overlooked symbol of suburbia – in the design of an architecture studio.

Terracotta trope: The Beehive

The Beehive, designed by Raffaello Rosselli Architect with Luigi Rosselli Architects, is a poetic exploration of the aesthetic and structural potential of recycled materials as applied to the design of this architectural family’s own Surry Hills studio.

Commercial
The EY Centre by FJMT.

‘Intrinsically Sydney’: The EY Centre

Combining a kinetic timber facade and a typology more often associated with slick glass, FJMT has created this “sublime” office tower that is tuned to the history of its harbour-side site and is “intrinsically Sydney.”

Commercial
Two-part copper and timber doors, based on a Mexican cathedral, make for a grand and dramatic entry to the QT Melbourne hotel.

A fine pairing: 131 Russell Street and 478 George Street

Two new towers by Candalepas Associates, the hotel QT Melbourne on Russell Street and the AHL Headquarters on George Street in Sydney, complement the existing fabric of the city with compositional finesse.

Commercial, Hospitality
Sydney 385 by Smart Design Studio.

Elemental and abstract: Sydney 385

Smart Design Studio’s new mixed-use building in Balgowlah, Sydney has an elegantly composed, layered outer skin that brings an urbane character to the suburban streetscape.

Commercial, Residential
A compact bar provides a hotel-like offering to foster a collegial atmosphere. Artwork: Jim Morrison Was Here (2014) by Ben Quilty.

Paramount by The Office Space

Housed in the iconic Art Deco Paramount House in Sydney’s Surry Hills, this shared office designed by Woods Bagot is both thoughtful and handsome.

Interiors
The glazed curtain wall of the new Novartis building works to explicitly communicate the transparency of the company’s practices and public presence.

Workplace drama: Novartis Head Office

HDR Rice Daubney’s design for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Macquarie Park, Sydney provides staff and visitors with a complex, layered and dramatic experience.

Commercial
The sophisticated and layered office makes art and architecture synonymous. Artwork (left to right): Untitled #35 by Bill Henson and Staging Silence 2 (2013) by Hans op de Beeck.

Urban interior: Bresic Whitney

Chenchow Little Architects’ fitout for this real estate agency in Hunters Hill, Sydney departs from suburban conventions to differentiate its brand and culture.

Interiors
The Beaux-Arts revivalist-style building at 50 Martin Place has been revitalized by Johnson Pilton Walker for Macquarie Group.

Jewel in the crown: 50 Martin Place

Johnson Pilton Walker revives a monumental building in one of Sydney’s most significant civic spaces.

Commercial
Kennards self storage head office is “a series of spaces within a space.”

Colour blocking: Kennards Self Storage

In northern Sydney, SJB Interiors has created a new working environment for this storage company – a series of spaces that reflects the communal and relaxed ethos of the family-owned business.

Interiors
Taking the form of a barcode, aluminium screens in three finish tones enclose public areas.

The total package: Australia Post

Carr Design Group re-design both the architecture and the interiors of Australia Post’s Sydney HQ, totally transforming it.

Interiors
The custom-designed joinery behind the reception desk divides the lounge area from workspaces.

Grocon HQ

A comfortable yet efficient headquarters for Grocon by Kerry Phelan Design Office.

Interiors
Converging lines pierce the floor plate and guide the layout of each level.

ANZ Tower interiors, Sydney

Hassell’s design for ANZ’s new workplace in Sydney empowers workers to move between spaces.

Interiors
Herbert Smith Freehills

Herbert Smith Freehills

A functional, multi-layered workplace by BVN Donovan Hill for Herbert Smith Freehills.

Interiors
The floating fitout barely touches the heritage-listed building shell.

Ansarada Office

Those Architects create a new work/life balance in the global office of a young tech company.

Commercial, Interiors
The office’s kitchen features a monolithic kitchen bench, with views to Sydney harbour.

Clemenger BBDO

Clemenger BBDO’s office by Hassell is a modern ad creative’s workplace/playground.

Interiors
The reception area signals a comfortable and creative space.

Jackson Teece Sydney studio

A fresh new fitout for an established design practice in Walsh Bay.

Commercial, Interiors
An enormous rug that breaks up the polished concrete flooring.

Goodman Unit B4

In Sydney’s industrial south, Make Creative has reimagined an old warehouse into an office with innovative interiors.

Interiors
Meeting and work spaces are open to encourage “instant immersion.”

Woods Bagot studio, Sydney

A more liveable work space in tune with a more flexible modern work force.

Commercial, Interiors
The studio is a single open space with unclad structural columns.

BVN Sydney Studio

In a true democratization of space, BVN’s Sydney studio consists of one single open-plan floor.

Interiors
The level 4 reception with artwork on the back wall by John Peart.

Cox Sydney Studio

Cox Richardson’s Sydney studio encourages communal, messy creativity.

Interiors