Cammeraygal
New South Wales
Blue & William reimagines the modern workplace in a post pandemic world.
Over 10 carefully considered levels, it’s a midscale commercial building set on the southwest edge of North Sydney’s CBD designed by Woods Bagot to celebrate location and maximise the stunning Sydney Harbour and city views.
Terracotta, kiln fired and glazed in a reddish ochre finish, frames each oversized 3.6m x 3.6m floor to ceiling window, while the building’s form is enhanced by a series of cascading terraces that magnify the panorama, open the building up and enabling staff to work outside if they want.
Inside, visitors are greeted by rich landscape and materiality drawn from the public spaces on Blue Street into the light filled lobby and wellness garden, bringing the outside in, enabling users to connect with nature.
Sustainability is central to the design with Blue & William achieving 5 Green Star Rating and a 5.5 NABERS Energy certification.
Blue & William presents as a handsome addition to the North Sydney skyline. The terracotta-framed floor-to-ceiling windows are beguiling at a distance and rewarding at closer inspection. Variegated floorplates offer diversity in a competitive commercial landscape, and a sense of interest as you circulate the building. Considered landscaping and a dramatically excavated sandstone wall create a distinctive workplace, which is commended for its contribution to the surrounding environment and deft architectural response to a complex site.
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
