Location: Sydney, Australia.

Architect: Woods Bagot.

Woods Bagot transformed four disused vintage industrial buildings into a cutting-edge, flexible workspace with a campus-style design for Goodman’s “The Hayesbery” headquarters that is centred on employee experience and wellbeing. The main goal of the design was to produce a work environment that was faithful to Goodman’s mission of “Making space for greatness.” Goodman has relocated from Sydney’s central business district to a historic industrial location in South Sydney, bringing it back to its roots and closer to its clients. Goodman’s move from a traditional Central office to the outskirts of the city required Woods Bagot to create a new benchmark for a corporate headquarters.

The main design difficulties that Woods Bagot encountered in this transition were: 1. To transform four neglected, disjointed historic industrial buildings into a 3,000 square-meter agile workspace 3. Integrate health and employee experience at the centre of an ambitious, high-performance destination workplace consistent with Goodman’s core principles. 2. Dramatically change the perception of a corporate workplace. Before COVID, design work had already begun, but the team swiftly changed course to incorporate the newest health, safety, and working practices.