210 George Street

Situated within the emerging Alfred, Pitt, Daley and George Street Precinct (APDG) adjacent to Circular Quay, 210 George Street will be part of an ensemble of buildings designed to transform the historic harbourside neighbourhood into a leading-edge innovation, creative and commercial district with a unique hospitality and entertainment offering. The circumstance of 210 George Street within the APDG neighbourhood, provoked the agenda for a building where the workplace intent combined with the enhancement of its cosmopolitism and street character, both with an approach to sustainability based on the extraction of redundancy and an investment in an enduring materiality. The location specific workplace intent defines the spatial configuration, and the workplace becomes the motif by which to merge context and identity with experience and character. Without the opportunity of views and floorplate scale of its neighbouring buildings, this approach gives the building its distinction, differentiating it from the surrounding existing and emergent premium grade office buildings that offer only generic and compliant office spaces that require significant tenant intervention to transform them into human centric workplaces. The 27-storey workplace is conceived as a series of double-height tenancies each benefiting from the spatial volume, character and amenity brought about by the twin floor plate coupling with the potential for individual tenancy modules to be vertically connected for larger tenants looking to secure four or more floors within the tower. Expressive and sculptural in form, the design manifests as a tripartite of composition of elements which resolve vertically as counterpoised arched volumes. The west facing George Street podium facade is composed of vaulting, cantilevered arches enclosing a continuous double height workplace which extends out to the external terraces. An array of double height blades on each of the terraces provide texture, materiality and detail to the podium street wall. Situated between the perimeter vaulting arches and the eastern side core, the primary working floorplate is expressed as a continuous glazed vertical element spanning the length of the tower. Signalling the conceptual two-storey tenancy approach within, a recessed façade transom orders the building façade as a series of double-height models. This provides the backbone to the composition, a solid, sculpted core sits on the eastern boundary of the site, delivering a highly efficient, contiguous floor plate ideal for flexible workplace planning. The design is intended to appeal to the new millennial worker, who is in turn a catalyst in the revitalisation of this precinct of Sydney. The City is encouraging the arrival of innovators in the midst of the traditional finance tenants of the precinct by encouraging workplaces that will appeal to technology and the creative industries. 210 George Street is orientated to this new approach to attract new talent to Sydney, combining an expressive and uniquely formed workplace with an authentic experience of place and climate. It is a building that contributes to the day to day working lives of the occupants and promotes a public realm full of vibrancy and dynamism from that. A volumetric and daylight modelled workplace that engages the street and inflects the contributive elements of 19th and 20th century architecture that defined Sydney most acknowledged moments from the Opera House, George Street to Martin Place.