Offering 19,500 square metres of office space, the building features an impressive lobby on the ground floor, which is formed by a curvilinear wall, laminated in folding brass, and displays Janet Laurence’s public art – an evocation of indigenous landscapes – suspended in glass panes above the corner atria. Outside, beneath the podium cantilever, an elongated glazed canopy delicately hangs from the arching columns. Street fronting retail and hospitality spaces are situated in double height volumes with each tenancy presented within individualised shopfront assemblies.
Global firm Grimshaw’s lead architect on the project reveals how the new, 118 kilometre-long tunnel system was conceived to be anything but claustrophobic.
Grimshaw Architects has proposed a revolutionary development on the site of Sydney’s Domain car park, which would see four new performance halls built to cement Sydney’s place as the arts capital of the country.