Victoria
Responding sensitively to its rich industrial context, the design of T3 Wellington positively contributes to Collingwood’s urban streetscape and sense of community.
The high-quality 15 level commercial building provides an activated ground plane with a cafe. A glazed facade and canopies further enhance the street frontage and pedestrian experience.
The building form references surrounding warehouse building typologies, with a rhythmic and visually cohesive brick facade to ground and podium levels, and upper levels to the east. Large, punched window openings form the facade, with metal surrounds providing solar shading.
Achieving best practice sustainability, the project exemplifies mass timber construction, building performance, occupancy comfort and urban environment.
Award for Commercial Architecture
T3 Collingwood demonstrates conceptual clarity and strength of conviction, resulting in a building which exudes purpose, thoughtfulness, and rigour.
The urban design moves are clear, revealing the neighbouring post-colonial historical shot tower, and continuing a dialogue with the established urban pattern. Setting back the ground level colonnade allows space on the street to gather or pause, enhancing a sense of belonging to the surrounding area.
Designed and delivered within the challenges and constraints of COVID lockdowns, commercial yield drivers and construction market volatility, Jackson Clements Burrows Architects’ steadfast commitment to delivering a quality architectural benchmark is admirable.
T3 responds to human needs and workplace habitation, in this case through tenant’s working week, with extensive access to natural light and views, excellent end-of-trip facilities, and the presence of the mass-timber structure, with all the sensory warmth this material brings.
Judicious restraint is deployed throughout the interior of the project. A reduced material palette of warm timber and red brick against cool galvanised steel, used seamlessly throughout the foyer, lobbies and amenities, contributes to a sense of calm while clearly referencing the site’s recent industrial past.
T3 is applauded for its critical position in commercial design moving towards a post carbon future.
T3 Collingwood is Hines; first mass timber office building in Asia Pacific, adding to our global portfolio of 26 timber assets across North America and Europe. The T3 concept is built around three pillars: the warmth and sustainability of timber, the innovations made possible by new technology, and the connectivity of transit.
The design focuses on occupant wellbeing, offering an employee centric workspace that attracts and retains talent. Meeting ambitious sustainability targets, T3 Collingwood responds to a growing demand for high-quality, green office buildings in Australia. We’re incredibly proud of the outcome.
Graham Burrows, Design Director
Chris Botterill, Project Director
Jimmy Walker, Project Architect
Sebastian Noguera, Project Leader
Natalie Cain, Graduate of Architecture
Melita Kei, Delivery Support
Tess Wrigley, Interior Designer
AECOM, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Fire Protection, ESD, Acoustic, Traffic, Façade, Waste
Altitude, Façade Access Consulting
Contour, Town Planner
du Chateau Chun, DDA Consultant
Duo, Project Manager
McKenzie Group, Building Surveyor
Openwork, Landscape Consultant
Phillip Chun, Consulting Building Surveyor
Rider Levett Bucknall, Quantity Surveyor
Scientific Fire, Fire Engineer
WRAP Engineering, Peer Review Services Engineers
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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.
