Dream floorplates in Brisbane’s newest city precinct
Large floorplates have enticed Suncorp to Mirvac’s new $800 million tower at 80 Ann Street in a move billed Brisbane’s largest leasing deal in a decade.
Designed by Woods Bagot, the premium 32-storey development at 80 Ann Street will provide Suncorp with close to 40,000 sqm of office space.
Woods Bagot’s director and global workplace architecture leader, Mark Damant, says the project is more like a new city precinct than a singular building.
“Spanning an entire block between Ann and Turbot streets, the development will help connect the CBD to the Roma Street precinct, the two courts buildings and surrounding plazas and squares,” Damant says.
Damant describes the very flexible, large floorplates, with wide structural spans, minimal internal columns and access to daylight and views as “dream floorplates”.
Providing a large continuous space on each level, the floorplates are linked with stairs and atria that create larger interconnected communities all the way up the Suncorp tenancy.
“This is also a mixed mode building in the true sense with arrival spaces connected to the outside via louvered and openable façades,” Damant adds.
“With terraces and balconies available to each community within the tower, Suncorp’s people will be able to step outside at every third level, without having to go all the way down to the ground.
“There will be an abundance of natural daylight and fresh air for optimum workplace wellbeing and connectedness,” Damant adds.
The workplace design will enable Suncorp’s people to work together as one community.
Suncorp staff are currently spread through three sites across Brisbane’s CBD. The move to 80 Ann Street is expected to support greater collaboration, interdepartmental interaction and productivity.
The building also boasts ‘breathing floors’ on levels 23 and 32 – midway up the building and at roof level. These mixed mode ‘garden terraces’ feature timber pod meeting rooms and other collaboration spaces for meetings with colleagues and clients.
At the roof level a shaded roof terrace will offer outdoor settings, herb gardens, function spaces and a kitchen facility, with plans for small fruit trees. The roof has been designed with a projection backdrop for cultural displays and light shows.