Transurban | Bates Smart

Transurban’s new workplace, located in Sydney’s Poly Centre, achieves elegance by focusing on the essentials only. The base building architecture – with its long, skinny floorplates, double height spaces and large concrete buttresses – helped us to derive three interior principles.
1.Focus on simple but strong ideas, to sit cohesively within the base building.
2.Play with volume and shape, to buffer the space and create key moments of welcome and effect.
3.Prioritise the workzones to have just as much intent and impact as front–of–house spaces.

The client floor avoids embellishment, instead demonstrating a few bold moves from the moody arrival in the lift lobby to the impressive glass conference rooms. A simple stair connects to the workfloors below, where workstations are reduced in density and illuminated by diffuse light. The interior cleverly integrates a material palette that speaks to Transurban’s portfolio – Sydney stone, concrete, steel and digital artworks.