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Buildings We Love: Macquarie Bank by Clive Wilkinson Architects

By David Seliger - June 13, 2011

in Architecture

Clive Wilkinson Architects' Macquarie Bank in Sydney, Australia is a fantastic collage of social spaces and colors. The building interior is a complete mish-mash of designs and styles, like walking through design expo showrooms one after the other. From Clive Wilkinson's mission statement:

We like to think of any organization as a distinctive 'human community'...we strive to connect people, shape relationships and empower organizations to produce new invigorating forms of human community.

The 10-story building is based around the central atrium, with conference rooms projecting into its core. Each of the floors is "divided into 5 neighborhoods of approximately 100 people," with "plazas with themes based on ancient collaboration typologies."

The styles of all of the different sections seem like a hybrid of the vision of the future from the 1970's and Apple's vision of the future from today.

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Very creative bank design. This building looks like it consists overall of pretty modern design, although many different styles of "modern". Because of all the windows and natural light poring into each rooms look spacious and the ambience seems light and warm.
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Strong blocks of colour with large typographic numbering make this building a graphic design exercise as well as fantastic architecture.
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