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Westpac Headquarters

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Arch / Design:		Geyer Design (web)
Consultant:		Hassell (web)
Type:		Office
Year:		2006
Location:		Sydney
Photographer:		Nick Bowers (web)

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Exploring the challenge
When creating a new milestone working environment for over 5,000 staff across all 32 floors of its Sydney CBD building, Westpac knew it was important to establish a set of design principles; an intelligent framework to inform the design process and ensure the new workplace transcended a standard commercial tenancy.

The large number of people to be housed within the building inspired HASSELL to create a vertical city, a rich and diverse urban environment that would become both a workplace and a community.

This foundation, developed by HASSELL in association with Geyer and workplace strategy consultants DEGW, identified that in addition to the essential business and commercial requirements of the workplace, the project was a built representation of Westpac itself. The design could highlight the leadership quality inherent in the Westpac brand, and create a healthy and inspirational working environment.