The COVID-19 pandemic has presented organisations with the impetus to change. Just as ‘experience retail’ has been a focus for those curating retail centres as a counter to online retail, workplaces will need to pivot to draw employees back to the office and to provide a forum for the new focus of the workplace –…
4,000 tonnes of steel is about to be erected on site at Jubilee Place – Brisbane’s first pure diagrid building and, upon completion, Australia’s tallest. This unique structural engineering solution was formulated by Robert Bird Group as a response to various site constraints, most notably to reduce the building’s load on the Clem Jones tunnel….
Jubilee Place has flown past another construction milestone on its path towards completion late next year. With the recent pour of our lower ground level slab, the basement structure is now complete and the main core has progressed to level 3. The first of our diagrid base nodes have also been installed, as a first…
Jubilee Place’s sustainability ethos maintains a dual focus on the health of the environment and of the people occupying our spaces. It is designed to be an asset for its tenants’ businesses. It is not just aesthetically iconic; it is designed to enhance performance, maximise productivity, inspire workforces and act as a competitive advantage in…
Jubilee Place’s impressive diagrid exoskeleton structure is an iconic design solution shaped by three environmental constraints. The intention to make the Jubilee Hotel the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of the wider precinct empowered the team to design with a much wider audience in mind. This led to the creation of two new public spaces: a…
What’s in a name? Quite a lot if it is on an iconic structure. Marketers know that putting a brand on a prominent building can make millions of positive impressions in the minds of potential customers. Brands choosing to align themselves with iconic buildings and harnessing their intrinsic attributes has a long and well-proven history….
The Coronavirus has brought about significant and sudden workplace change, but emerging research suggests that while enforced isolation has been a boom for the growing work-from-home trend, transforming millions of commuters into remote workers almost overnight, it may not be a positive move for all workers and productivity. Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, who has…
Despite necessary COVID19 safety measures including disciplined social distancing for everyone onsite, Watpac is powering on with the build of Jubilee Place, located on the corner of St Pauls Terrace and Symes Street in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Upon completion, Jubilee Place will house Watpac’s own headquarters, along with IWG’s Spaces co-working hub. Its modern architecture…