Macquarie Bank headquarters atrium
I don't think I'd ever be comfortable sitting at the desks below...
Macquarie Bank's new 50 Martin Place, Johnson Pilton Walker-designed headquarters won the Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture at the 2015 National Architecture Awards for its two-year, $100 million refurbishment, which lets lots of light through a central atrium.
This refurbishment widened and reopened the original 1928 building's atrium which had been blocked by plant and air-conditioning in later years. The new design added the two-floor stainless steel canopy shown in the previous photo, and architects Bligh Voller Nield put in the staircase.
Modern technology allowed the floor plates to be cut back from internal supporting columns, which were stripped and painted white. The company's staff get to mingle as they share a kitchen every second floor. Circular glass lifts go from the ground floor banking chamber to the top.
Macquarie Bank headquarters atrium
I don't think I'd ever be comfortable sitting at the desks below...
Macquarie Bank's new 50 Martin Place, Johnson Pilton Walker-designed headquarters won the Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture at the 2015 National Architecture Awards for its two-year, $100 million refurbishment, which lets lots of light through a central atrium.
This refurbishment widened and reopened the original 1928 building's atrium which had been blocked by plant and air-conditioning in later years. The new design added the two-floor stainless steel canopy shown in the previous photo, and architects Bligh Voller Nield put in the staircase.
Modern technology allowed the floor plates to be cut back from internal supporting columns, which were stripped and painted white. The company's staff get to mingle as they share a kitchen every second floor. Circular glass lifts go from the ground floor banking chamber to the top.