Gardens and Landscaping
The design sits the building wings back from Pybus
Street to create a generous garden in which to
linger and spill out as an unaffected foreground to
the architecture. The use of a few of the parking
levels to lift the building’s ground floor above the
street around in a landscaped podium, creates
natural privacy and security, while affording the
building users wonderful views from the public
spaces. The glazed street level lobby ensures the
building is not removed from its city context.
The natural landscape complements the
entrance, and the variety of swathes of indigenous
planting, lawn, integral seating spaces and raised
planters create a diversity of places for sitting out
and taking lunch, or breaking from meetings. The
orientation and the detailed landscape design
together with the glazed edge balustrade ensures
that there is always a choice of sunny, shady, and
wind-free spaces with views to enjoy.
The folding stacking doors at the coffee shop
are regularly opened completely allowing the
transition between inside and outside spaces to
blur and seamlessly function together. On higher
levels, terraces on each corner of the floorplate
open to the outside, linking the office environment
to the natural context.
The same level of attention was brought to the
streetscape, where a regular beat of trees are set
into densely planted beds which make the walk
along the building at street level pleasant and
verdant. The podium façade is dressed with a
combination of stone and planted screens which
increase the garden area, and speak to the similar
detail at 90 Rivonia.
2 Pybus
Sustainability
2 Pybus has achieved a 4-star GBCSA Green Star
rating. A combination of sensible passive design
principles and selected active technologies have
been used to minimise the impact of the building
and its on-going use on the environment, as
well as to enhance the experience of working
in and visiting the building. One of the more
unusual aspects of the scheme was the focus
on individuality necessitated by the particular
working style of the tenants – as a result, not only
are individual thermostats and lights provided, but
so are openable windows.
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