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Deloitte Adelaide by Woods Bagot
Blending innovation with local identity, Deloitte Adelaide by Woods Bagot is a vibrant workplace that celebrates South Australia’s spirit through design, storytelling, sustainability and deep cultural and community connection.
Deloitte Adelaide by Woods Bagot is a layered workplace bringing people together through connection to people and place, while imprinting Adelaide’s DNA into the design. Designing a site to welcome clients, graduates and workers, Woods Bagot approached the project as a curation of innovation, sustainability and celebration of local artists and makers.
The project’s open floor plan allows 360-degree views across Adelaide. A minimal lightbox staircase acts as the anchor or core of the office. A beacon of light, it also offers quirky Adelaide anecdotes written across the stair risers. “If you can celebrate the stories deeply rooted in place, the people who work there will feel a deeper sense of connection,” says Woods Bagot principal in charge, Rosina Di Maria.
Though a corporate office, there are moments of surprise. As a wine region, purple accents, like the acoustic mauve curtains, orient the viewer within the surrounding viticulture industry. Meanwhile, sparingly used marble represents the surrounding earth typologies, as do the local JamFactory-created bespoke dappled glass lights.
For Deloitte Adelaide, Woods Bagot aimed for users to experience an emotional connection to the space, while also wanting to celebrate locality, draw people back to the office and attract graduates to the Deloitte Academy. The pops of pink and purple, gender-neutral toilets, carers’ rooms and a 5.5-Green Star rating do the talking for Deloitte as a groundbreaking organisation attracting the best thinkers. “We wanted to send the message that they embraced change, that they were innovative enough to be bold and aspirational,” says Di Maria.
Woods Bagot also harnessed virtual reality software to show the organisation’s concepts in real scale. “We took reference to engineering and innovation and threaded that through the whole project,” says Di Maria.
Continuing their Green Star rating, Woods Bagot upcycled from other Deloitte interstate offices, reupholstering and reusing furniture where they could, while the new elements aim to showcase Adelaide. Handcrafted bronze cast handles from the JamFactory evoke the former redgum forest that sat along the Karrawirra Parri, engaging users from their first touchpoint with the space. Recycled PET signage references Country using the Kaurna language as place makers, and the contemporary art focuses on local Indigenous and women artists.
Throughout, Deloitte Adelaide by Wood Bagot offers elements of surprise, all while balancing pragmatism and with the hope to inspire, to think differently or spark curiosity among staff and clients. Balancing interior design and art, Woods Bagot has created an innovative workplace that tells the narrative of place and the story of Adelaide.




