A CALM, CONNECTED WORKPLACE

Allianz’s new Canberra workplace is a future‑focused hub that brings their workplace strategy to life and supports a flexible, people‑first way of working. Designed as an aspirational yet grounded platform for work, it strengthens community, supports hybrid patterns, and gives the Canberra team a place they feel proud to call home.

Developed through a co-design process with the local team, the workplace responds directly to how people work today and how they want to work in the future. Neighbourhood-style planning brings together open workstations, focus rooms, meeting spaces, and a generous breakout hub, allowing people to move easily between concentrated work and collaboration. All spaces are carefully tuned for acoustics, privacy, technology and comfort – enabling confidential calls, hybrid collaboration and social connection, while maintaining clear sightlines to support a strong, people‑first team culture.

Materiality was inspired by Canberra’s infamous red bricks and natural landscape, reinterpreted through terracotta stone, brick-format tiles, venetian plaster, timber-look flooring, and pale oak joinery. Warm, muted paint tones, champagne metal finishes and abundant planting create a calm and biophilic atmosphere that supports wellbeing and reflects the team’s desire for a space that is warm, non‑sterile and connected to place. Local, First Nations artworks are integrated throughout the workplace, further embedding mutuality and shared purpose - woven sculptures by Harriet Goodall, clay works by Julie Pennington, and paintings by Sarrita King, Kathy Dodd, and Ingrid Treacle.