Jfk Interiors Australia were engaged by builder ProBuild to provide the commercial and bespoke joinery for Australian Unity’s new head office at 271 Spring Street, Melbourne. 

Designed by architect Bates Smart, the new office space accommodates over 1,000 staff across 12,500 sqm and provides a connection between its people, local heritage and the community. 

The hub-style workplace focuses on wellness and enabling an agile, technology reliant workforce. Bates Smart created three floor ‘villages’, all connected via a large stairwell and void. Socially engineered lower floors encourage collaboration, innovation and people engagement, nurturing a sense of purpose and personal relationships. 

Once again, the JFK Interiors Australia team has done an outstanding job in producing the highest quality joinery on a complex commercial office project, a sector where we maintain a long history as market leaders. 

Client: Australian Unity

Builder: Probuild 

Architect: Bates Smart

Requiring extensive commercial experience and capabilities to delivery on a wide array of bespoke joinery work including a custom unique u-shaped reception desk, a variety of long and tall storage units, timber seating both - standalone and integrated, booth seating and joinery, credenzas and wall paneling in a range of laminate and timber finishes, fabric paneling, bench seating with plantar boxes, low storage and shelving units, first aid joinery, parents room joinery, pin boards, kitchen and island bench, glass whiteboards, bookshelves, amphitheater seating, wall cladding in timber and laminate, end of trip storage and vanities, mirrors, lobby wall paneling, basins, locker shrouds along with end of trip adjacent joinery. 

With the hero joinery piece of the project undoubtedly being the large multilevel timber stairwell and associated void that connected the three floor ‘villages’.

All up when finished the project involved more than 5000 hours of machining, and more than 4000 hours on site.   

As always, JFK Interiors Australia delivered on time and on specification and now look forward to the next opportunity to work with our valued clients and partners.

Builder: Probuild | Architect: Bates Smart | Client: Australian Unity