Ashurst

Balancing local and global requirements with flexibility

The workspace’s frictionless design allows spaces to be consistent and user-friendly, supporting both client and employee needs.

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Grant Filipoff

Associate Director, Bates Smart

Located at the top end of Collins Street, the 3-storey, 3,800sqm workspace’s frictionless design allows spaces to be consistent and user-friendly, supporting both client and employee needs. This high-performance solution offers increased flexibility through a modular design. Task diversity is supported through a range of work settings with an increased focus on collaboration. Designing spaces that prompt ‘bump’ interactions has allowed the office to be a destination of choice for client engagement.

Designed through a hospitality lens, the refined neutral palette combined with textural elements allows the office to function smoothly as a commercial workplace with a calming and tranquil atmosphere. The cross-sector design’s intertwining elements of hospitality and workplace provide an entirely new client and staff experience.

With the reception located on the lower floor, a sweeping staircase acts as a sculptural connection between the three levels within the heart of the floorplate. The staircase connects the client floor directly to Ashurst’s staff and a shared café. Merging talent through blended client and staff spaces emphasises the importance of partnership and collaboration between staff and clients.