NAB 3 Parramatta Square Workspace & NAB 2 Carrington St. Office Workspace

A red stair connects two NAB workplaces twenty-four kilometers apart. NAB 3 Parramatta Square and NAB 2 Carrington Street are Woods Bagot sibling workplaces, known as the Sydney campus, together housing over 6,000 desks and offering a rare chance to boldly transform the bank's workplace experience in locations highly relevant to existing and emerging clients. This is a two-hands approach, said global workplace leader Amanda Stanaway, with both leases designed and delivered in parallel based on transformation intelligence from NAB 700 Bourke Street in Melbourne. We first distilled NAB's DNA across both sites, then gave each its own identity based on location and demographics. NAB 3PS responds to an emerging role, anchoring Parramatta's establishment as Sydney's central city; NAB 2CS, surrounded by heritage and a mature CBD, takes an established role. These conceptual approaches permeate spatial arrangement, geometry, movement, connectivity and materiality. NAB 3PS is a thirteen-story, 35,000-square-meter adaptive workplace at the heart of the Parramatta Square urban renewal, emphasizing a raw, surprising, authentic aesthetic representing Greater Sydney's diversity. Interior flow and layered space create bold interaction; lower levels deliberately open the bank to the public realm, providing immersive connection and co-creation spaces. NAB 2CS, an established identity refined into elegant aesthetics, occupies twelve floors, 29,000 square meters across the listed Shell House and adjacent new tower linked by a central atrium. Overlooking Wynyard Park, framed treetop views and the ground floor's micro-branch and cafe extend the public realm; a sculptural entrance ribbon leads to elevated concierge, while upper levels include an outdoor amphitheatre, two terraces and a large trading floor. Partner Ian Lomas said meaningful intervention in base buildings creates a unified experience across 3PS and 2CS physically and visually; the red stair creates flow and brand identity, uniting both sites. The two simultaneous projects reflect NAB and Woods Bagot's decade-plus partnership and deliver state-of-the-art workplace design through a rare, equal client-designer dialogue.