oasis

ANZ seeks a natural feel and a touch of biophilia in its new Sylvia Park locale. Melanie McDaid finds out more.

“What would the ideal workplace of the future look like” was the question ANZ posed to Warren and Mahoney (WaM) when beginning work on ANZ Raranga, its new workspace at Sylvia Park. In searching for the answer, WaM looked to the past. “We used the structure of ancient gardens, which have brought peace and rejuvenation for over 4000 years, to structure the 2025 workplace organically.” The basic principle for the new space (six floors within a new commercial building), says WaM’s Gabrielle Gatt, is to acknowledge it is a workplace “but we countered that with a sense of well-being and oasis, and giving that reprieve so people can actually do their work well”. Working closely with the design team at WaM was ANZ’s Head of Workplace Property, Matthew Clark. Clark…

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Interior (Digital) - 1 Issue, March / May 2020

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