Parramatta Blog

According to architects, new office space in Sydney's Parramatta is shattering the myth that governments operate out of gloomy, traditional locations with a sense of oppressive bureaucracies.

 They are located on 15 levels of the 55-storey twin tower in the city's second CBD in addition to its 33 floors of an adjacent tower that opened in late 2019. Instead, the offices just handed over to the NSW government are on par with, if not better than, anything currently constructed in Barangaroo.

 The government offices in Parramatta are a fresh iteration of the workplace because those in Barangaroo are approaching their seventh anniversary, according to Amanda Stanaway, global leader of workplace design at architecture company ‘Woods Bagot’.

 In Australia, the company has just finished its biggest office design project to date: the NSW government’s Parramatta Square Workplace Hub, with 109,000 square metres of connected workspace, in Lang Walker’s $3.2 billion Parramatta Square project.

 Despite all the delays caused by COVID, the project took three years to plan and execute. A designated podium welcome area for staff and guests, as well as numerous shared areas for various work patterns, were important aspects of the project making it the evolution of the largest government hub project in New South Wales.

 The construction that is slated to become Australia's largest office tower in terms of nett lettable area is the twin towers at 6 and 8 Parramatta Square offering a combination of 124,000 square metres. There are 4,200 employees working in two government agencies who have long-term leases on the two structures.

 They also have all of the floors of the tower at 4 Parramatta Square, which will bring the total number of employees at the site to 10,000 from various departments as a "future-focused workplace," according to Stace Fishwick, executive director of commercial development and management at "Property and Development NSW".

 Everything here demonstrates that the days of governments functioning out of drab, antiquated locations are a thing of the past.

 *Written by Jayden Ayoub | Commercial Sales & Leasing