Arup Workplaces

Great working relationships produce great results – when everyone pulls together to test boundaries and explore new ideas. This founding principle behind global leader Arup is also the story of our collaboration with them, designing a series of exceptional workplaces for their people in Australasia. We first started working with the multi-national engineering, design and planning firm in 2013, understanding their business, employees and culture within the region. Through that process we could clearly see how the company wanted their workplaces to ​‘pull back the curtain’ on the innovation and ingenuity of their organisation and people. Over the next six years, we teamed up on new workplace guidelines, pilot projects and the design of multiple offices – all part of the company’s plan to progress the ​‘living.Arup’ vision and change the way they engaged with clients and collaborators. Our new guidelines set the overall ethos and working styles for all the offices, but we still left room for each site to show their unique personality through the workplace design. Whatever the location, the underlying culture always comes across clearly, reminding staff and visitors how much Arup values the exchange of ideas, the process of experimentation and the power of engineering and design. “It’s the embodiment of a collaborative exchange of ideas, knowledge and skills between Arup and Hassell.” Andrew Pettifer Arup Principal and New South Wales Region Leader IMAGERY Earl Carter, Douglas Mark Black, EK Yap