The jury’s comment:

“This sensitive design response to a beautiful historic building has delivered a post-Covid work and host environment where great care has been taken to integrate the fit-out and spatial concepts into the character of the heritage surround. Its success lies in combining a grandness of scale and rawness of materiality while overlaying more-relaxed, moody touches of home comfort. There is a richness and sophistication of materials and space and a feeling of being ‘hosted’ throughout. This is certainly a successful concept both to engage with the community and entice tenants back to the ‘office’, creating a number of ways to work, collaborate, relax and socialise.” - Interior Awards 2022 jury.

PROJECT DETAILS:

Location: Melbourne

Client: Work Club Global

Building area (m²): 3545m²

Project brief: The brief was to connect all elements of the building together from a human perspective with a network of services, event programming and spaces.

Work Club needed dedicated member space in the precinct, as well as ground plane offerings to everyone that interacts with the building (including the public), building a unique and diverse urban community.

Credits:

• Design - Clark Bardsley Design
• Project Principal - Clark Bardsley
• Project Lead - Soren Trampedach
• Draughtsperson - Imogene Mitchell

“Olderfleet is a large and complex high-rise development within a heritage environment. Work Club’s brief was to connect all the elements of the building together from a human perspective with a network of services, event programming and spaces. Corporate environments post Covid-19 must work harder to attract and retain tenants. Olderfleet needed to become a place people wanted to be, because they feel welcome, comfortable, deeply connected and inspired.”  - Clark Bardsley.

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