151 Macquarie Street — Façade Replacement and Fitout
- Commercial
- Corval
151 Macquarie Street required a full façade replacement, driven in part by the need to remove Aluminium Composite Panels retrospectively banned under a fire order — but the outcome far exceeded the remediation brief. What had been a dated 1980s commercial building emerged as a premium, contemporary icon within the Sydney CBD, recognised with a Master Builders Award for best refurbishment, renovation or extension in the $10 million to $20 million category.
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Project details
The new façade re-imagines the building’s history rather than erasing it, expressing the original structural slab edge through a continuous glazed curtain wall that creates a more slender tower form and accentuates its verticality through glazed fins. At podium level, a fine-grain terracotta finish is sympathetic to the surrounding context while establishing a distinctive street presence. For tenants, the transformation delivered tangible benefits: significantly enhanced natural daylight, improved outlook and a building address worth being proud of.
Delivering a project of this scale and complexity within a fully live tenanted environment required detailed staging, carefully considered methodologies and a robust tenant engagement plan that kept all stakeholders informed and involved throughout construction. Forge managed the process from end to end, ensuring that what is a disruptive scope of work was executed with minimum impact and maximum result.
