Encouraging the evolution of company culture is no mean feat, particularly when said company is in an industry as notoriously conservative as mining. Yet with their new Darling Park office for Yancoal, Hammond Studio managed to do just that.
January 22nd, 2019
Yancoal Sydney Workplace Architect: Hammond Studio
Project Manager: Generate Property Group
Property Advisory: Counsel
Builder: FDC
Services Engineer: Evolved Engineering
Length: 6 months
Furniture
‘Host System’ Worklife work stations, ‘Roundish’ armchairs and sofa, ‘Hiroshima Chair, SeeHoSu. ‘On Chair’ task chair, Wilkhahn. ‘Soft Shell’ meeting room chairs and reception tables, Vitra. ‘Lunar’ meeting room armchairs, ‘Vizu’ and ‘Nerd’ meeting room stools, ‘Around’ café table, Living Edge. ‘Pure Loop Binuance’ meeting room chairs, ‘Stratos’ and ‘Breda’ informal meeting armchairs, ‘Ikon’ table system, ‘Planar’ meeting tables, ‘Bold’café table, ‘Miura’ informal meeting table, Café Culture. Tacchini ‘Soap’ reception coffee table, Thinkingworks ‘Blade’ meeting room tables, Stylecraft.
Lighting
‘Bureau’ wall light, Alma Lighting. ‘Blade’ downlights, Iguzzini. ‘Crescent lamp’, Space Furniture. ‘Ginger M’ table lamp, ‘Ginger 20’ breakout pendants, ‘Ginger A’ wall lights, Est Lighting.
Finishes
‘Fossil’ reception flooring ‘Yuki Border’ wall tile, Artedomus. ‘Duo’ meeting room carpet, Passo Flooring. ‘Tretford’ carpet, Gibbon Group. ‘Marmoleum Walton’ resilient flooring Olive, Smokey Blue, Salsa, Burgundy and Pebble linoleum furniture finishing, Forbo. ‘LVT Warm Polished Cement’, Interface. ‘Strong Strawberry’, ‘Red Box’, ‘American Mahogany’, ‘Murray Red’, ‘Pesto’ and ‘Shire’ paint, ‘Stone Grey’, ‘Mangrove’, ‘Deep Ocean’, ‘Intensity Dessert’, ‘Hunter Red’, ‘Black’ powercoating, Dulux. ‘Tempest’ and ‘Boro 2’ paint, Murobond. ‘Lancaster’ and ‘Amiable’ acoustic walls, Camira. ‘Tek’ fabric walls, ‘Steelcut Trio 2’ fabric wall, Kvadrat. Deep Grey, Red Wine, Indigo Blue and Hot Red echopanels, CFS. Blue echopanel, Woven Image. ‘Wizard Hotshot’ fabric wall, Textile Mania. Anodized Matt Natural powdercoat, JEB. Sovereign Gold powdercoat, Australian Aluminium Flooring. ‘Baye’, ‘Sarsen Grey’ and ‘Eggplant’ laminate finishes, Laminex. ‘SEI’ laminate, Abet Laminati. Cherry woodwall veneer, Elton Group. Australian myrtle cherry Glulam, DGI. TGY-BEL terrazzo, Signorino. Grey Corian finishes, CASF. Linen2230, Caesarstone.
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