Haysom Spender Heritage-listed Office Space
| Client: | Haysom Spender |
| Location: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Scope overview: | Convert a turn-of-the-century heritage-listed warehouse into a modern and efficient professional office |
Project Description
Integrating historic value with a professional future for Haysom Spender
OBJECTIVES
Haysom Spender, one of Brisbane’s leading architectural practices, approached Wiley to convert a turn-of-the-century heritage-listed warehouse into a modern and efficient professional office featuring reception, a boardroom, a meeting room, a resource area, a library and workstations.
CHALLENGES
- Preserving the heritage values of the original warehouse
- Integrating some obvious signs of the building’s history and former use into the contemporary office design
- Combining heritage restoration and new construction activities
- Conducting detailed project planning and project management to complete many diverse activities.
SOLUTIONS
Advice
- Detailed planning and scheduling to manage the restoration and construction programs
- Application of specialised project management techniques to control the unique project requirements.
Design
- Detailed planning and scheduling to manage the restoration and construction programs
- Application of specialised project management techniques to control the unique project requirements.
Construction
- Complete gutting of the first and second floors and repairs to the basement
- Completion of a restoration program:
- polishing of the original ground floor timber floors (the only renovation to this floor)
- refinishing of the original stained glass windows
- removal of tiles from the ground floor façade and reconstruction to heritage requirements
- exposure of timber floor framing and trusses where possible; installation of decorative features, including glass ceiling in the boardroom on the first level and pressed metal ceiling and skylights on the second level.
- Completion of a construction program:
- construction of two internal staircases and a timber deck
- installation of a lift shaft to the second floor and modern steel-framed partitions and workstations
- rewiring of electrics and installation of air conditioning to the first and second levels
- inclusion of high-quality finishes throughout.
RESULTS
The successful combination of restoration and new construction work to achieve a contemporary office space that services the needs of a modern architectural practice while preserving the building’s heritage-listed values and paying homage to its fascinating past.
Other restoration projects by Wiley are the Lands Office Hotel, the Old Boot Factory and the Ship Inn in Brisbane.