COFFEYHALLETT was engaged by a private family company to deliver a complete interior architectural fit-out for their new office located within a historic Art Deco building on O’Connell Street, Sydney. Working in collaboration with Think Projects, the brief called for a full transformation of the existing tenancy. The original space was a modern, stock-standard commercial office with no defining character. Our team stripped the interior back to its shell, rethinking the spatial planning, functionality, and materiality from the ground up. The new layout was designed to support both focused work and informal collaboration, incorporating meeting spaces, a reception zone, and private work areas tailored to the client’s operational needs. The project includes all new internal partitions, lighting, flooring, joinery, and finishes, reflecting a holistic approach to reimagining the environment.
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This private office is imagined as a quiet world within the city, a study in restraint, light, and material warmth. Designed as both a retreat and a workspace, it challenges the notion of what an office should feel like: intimate yet purposeful, layered but unpretentious. Soft daylight drifts through sheer curtains, diffusing across a palette of dark timber, chrome and soft neutrals. The interplay of light and shadow becomes the project’s quiet protagonist, revealing texture, grounding form, and shifting subtly throughout the day. There’s a rhythm to the way spaces unfold. Lounge-like settings encourage unhurried conversation, while more focused zones are cocooned in deeper tones and softened edges. Fluted glass partitions play with transparency and reflection, balancing openness with discretion. The result is a space that feels deeply human, tactile, calm, and contemplative. It blurs the boundaries between home and work, public and private. More than a place of productivity, it’s a place of presence; an environment that invites pause, connection, and considered thought.