Client:
Qantas Airways Limited
Location:
Mascot, NSW
Status:
Built, December 2013
Sustainability:
5 Star NABERS Energy Rating
Contact Person:
Ray Brown
Architectus has completely transformed a 1980s office campus into a high quality, collaborative workplace that’s also far more energy efficient, lifting its NABERS rating from 1.5 to 5 stars.
The key moves? Creation of a new atrium structure and the introduction of two significant architectural elements: an internal street and a new entry hall.
The internal street is a four-storey volume uniting three existing office buildings and enclosed by a generously glazed roof and façade. It creates a new public place and communal facilitation while also establishing physical and visual connections between the buildings.
Drawing people into and across the site
Selected areas of the existing building’s floorplate have been extended into the new atrium space, creating balconies and office pods. This move also provides better connections, encouraging interaction and engagement between people using the various spaces.
The new entry hall features a triple-height volume, large glazed façade and over-sailing roof which consolidate the campus entrance. They also form a new front-of-house experience and entry hall which draws people up and into the internal street.
“Architectus has provided Qantas with a headquarters that is visually stunning extremely functional and far more cost-effective than its predecessor. Our people are really enjoying the new space.”
Stephen McDonald, (Former) Head of Property & Ground Services, Qantas Airways Limited
Client:
Qantas Airways Limited
Location:
Mascot, NSW
Status:
Built, December 2013
Sustainability:
5 Star NABERS Energy Rating
Contact Person:
Ray Brown
Design competition winner
Australian Institute of Architects (NSW), Commercial Building Architecture Award, 2014
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Principal
CEO
Sydney
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Associate Principal
Newcastle
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Principal
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