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300PLUS ®Bunbury Call CentreCall Centre – Bunbury, WASTRUCTURAL STEEL – SPEED AND ECONOMYA combination of astructural steel framewith a compositefloor was the earlychoice for this threestoreyoffice building.Located in Bunbury,Western Australia,it houses a purposebuilt call centre andboasts large columnfree work areas.The client’s brief was for 3200 squaremetres of floor space and parkingover the full area of the basement ofthe building.Rob Skipworth of Horizon Design,designers on the project, said: “wewanted to keep the building light –not just in weight but in look and thepenetration of light to the interiors.Our objective with the foyer was to createan interesting focal point for the building.”Workers and visitors enter the buildingthrough a foyer void at street level. Thisglass void rises to the full height of thebuilding. Curved balconies on each flooroverlook the void and allow views outover the town to the ocean.“To create interest in the void, andfacilitate the views from each level thecurved balconies within the lobby havebeen set back and stagged and rotatefrom the lift area,” Mr Skipworth said.“Two feature curved roofs have beenconstructed over the steel and glassthree storey façade.” Mr Skipworth saidthat: “The curved roof was created tosimulate the natural arch motion of thewaves from the nearby Indian Ocean.”onesteel solutions issue 5 page 16