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Deutsche Bank's new Sydney Headquarters is located over 9 floors in the new Foster and Partners commercial tower, Deutsche Bank Place at 126 Phillip Street, housing its Global Markets trading floors, a significant IT team, operational support and conference and meeting facilities.
As an anchor tenant, the investment bank negotiated an integrated fitout.
Accordingly, the 13, 000m2 DB workplace was developed in synchronicity with the design of the base building - requiring a collaborative working model with all project participants.
The strategic design drivers for the bank were unity, transparency, functionality, innovation and community - which formed the basis for the workplace design. The bank is linked over the nine floors by two glass stairs incised into the floorplate. A variety of meeting areas form communal spaces at the vertical stair nodes and in turn cluster around the building's atrium, creating a dynamic presence to this internal atrium facade.
Meeting rooms are created as delightful coloured pavilions that form a 'dancing' composition on the building's atrium. They are clad entirely in glass, a material used for its depth and reflective expression.
The architecture of the workspace is inexorably linked to both the culture and image of the bank and to the architecture of this unique building.
This sophisticated interior aligns seamlessly with the corporate culture of Deutsche Bank. It combines a tangible efficiency with a smart and contemporary design edge that skilfully profiles and distinguishes the client image while remaining sympathetic to the design of the base building.
The scheme successfully “borrowsâ€Â쳌 the building atrium as its front address, deriving maximum value for public conference and arrival places from the city landscape beyond.
An investment bank environment is necessarily complex, with secure areas segregated from public spaces, and with multiple meeting areas and workshop arrangements. This is made legible and inviting here through the innovative and discrete organization of working and visitor spaces and the commendable manipulation of volume and light. Two glass stairs are deployed as transparent and vibrant connecters over the nine floors, achieving an almost invisible demarcation between the public and secure areas. The demanding technology requirements of the bank are fully integrated with the fitout and become evident only as contributing to the progressive image of the client.
The architecture of the interior is elegantly executed throughout in a cool and carefully detailed base palette of materials and fixtures. These are offset and made dynamic with hot colours and commissioned artworks at strategic circulation and meeting places.
Deutsche Bank is refreshingly free from style or fashion.
It has a quiet yet vital interior that is at once practical and surgically beautiful.
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