25 Martin Place Retail Redevelopment.
Vote now! See the Woods Bagot projects in the running for the Property Council of Australia’s (PCA) Innovation & Excellence People’s Choice Award.
Voting closes at midnight, Friday 9 August 2024. The winner will be announced at the Awards Gala Dinner held on Wednesday 11 September 2024 at the ICC, Sydney.
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Heritage Development Award for Best Heritage Development
The design strives to preserve the existing Harry Seidler legacy through adaptive reuse of the existing precast architecture expression while creating a distinctly new organic ‘ribbon’ to unite the entire development’s composition.
25 Martin Place is an important connective link in the city, and is surrounded by a series of activated city streets. Maintaining and enhancing the centre’s role as a connective destination – specifically between Martin Place and King Street – is crucial to its continued success.
Mixed Use Award for Best Mixed Use Development
It was a project unlike any other undertaken by Woods Bagot due to the diverse scope of works, the 171-year heritage of the property and its iconic location next to the Royal Botanic Garden overlooking Sydney Harbour.
Crucial to the stunning outcome was integrating and enhance the old and new elements of the property, which blends the three-level Treasury Building, built in 1851, and a 32-level tower completed in 1985.
The Paper Mill is a series of high-rise residences, ground floor laneway apartments and townhouses, within a verdant and amenity-rich setting. Landscaped gardens and pedestrian pathways weave through the permeable grounds, connecting to new retail and dining spaces.
At the heart of the development is the adaptive re-use of the Paper Mill building itself—one of the only surviving early-20th-century industrial buildings in Liverpool. Restored externally, the building has been renewed internally to provide retail and formal dining space alongside farmer’s markets, cafés, pop-up shops and public workshops for the public to enjoy.
Office Development Award for Best Office Development
Occupying a prime corner block in the Adelaide central business district, 83 Pirie provides frontages to Pirie street, Freemasons Lane and Freemans Lane. Drawing upon Pirie Street’s history as a residential street comprised of businesses with attached homes, the design team developed a ‘WORKLIFE’ concept to inform the building’s planning, access and massing.
The officer tower captured a lot of firsts for Adelaide – the first all-electric, carbon-neutral-ready building; the first Platinum WELL v2 pilot pre-certified building; and the first commercial and retail mixed-use building that will not use natural gas. It was also the first Platinum WiredScore building delivered in Adelaide, achieved via a focus on providing world-class technology infrastructure, connectivity and cyber security.
Workplace Project Award for Best Workplace Project
Located in the historic former Transport House on 99 Macquarie Street, M&C Saatchi Group has planted deep roots within the historic precinct, bringing together a house of brands to collectively deliver a new narrative and fresh chapter for the advertising agency.
Considered, but clearly contemporary elements have been introduced to reinvigorate and reimagine the heritage bones in the service of collaboration, story-telling and originality.
Five highly diverse character environments establish a host of experiences, that keep enticing staff back.
As a counterpoint to the conventional corporate fitout, Woods Bagot designs a narrative-driven workspace featuring layered design techniques, expressive gestures and textural surfaces in a poetic response to BHP’s physical land assets.
‘Brave’ was the keyword that guided the team for the Melbourne headquarters, beginning with the reduction in the overall workspace from five to two-and-a-half floors. The smaller space needed to support a weighty brief, with themes emerging from stakeholder engagement including: connection to site, embedded sustainability, and respect for diversity and inclusion.
6 Parramatta Square ‘6PSQ’ for NSW government is a large-scale project at 43,800 sqm connecting to 33 floors of the adjoining tower at 4 Parramatta Square. 6PSQ is a future focused workplace that was designed to flexibly respond and adapt to changing tenant and user requirements.
This workplace is an evolution for the NSW government which supports a more agile and hybrid workforce, elevating the physical office in enabling culture and connection, across a campus type hub in a pivotal location in Sydney.
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