Harry The Hirer's new Melbourne headquarters occupies a century-old building and operates less like an office than a live production - one that runs continuously, shifts with the light, and makes an argument for what a workplace can be.
As Australia's leading creative event services company, Harry The Hirer needed a space that reflected the scale and ambition they deliver for clients across major events, conferences, exhibitions and bespoke productions. The brief called for something that functioned as both a workplace and a showcase: a physical demonstration of the company's audiovisual capability and creative range.
The project was delivered in collaboration with design partner RCA Studio. With almost everything custom-fabricated, the build includes 3km of LED spaghetti lighting distributed across multiple floors and a constellation of LED screens displaying curated digital art - together forming a choreographed, building-wide light display that shifts and evolves throughout the day.
The ground floor greets visitors with a series of configured event setups, illustrating the breadth of Harry The Hirer's offering from the moment of entry. Above, a signature breakout level is defined by full-height LED walls and a ceiling of flowing aquatic imagery - an immersive environment that detaches entirely from the conventions of office design.
The spatial centrepiece is a towering glass LED screen - the largest in the southern hemisphere - that runs from the ground floor ceiling to the third floor, anchoring a multi-storey atrium formed by structural cut-outs through each level. A sculptural staircase with intersecting flights connects the floors, drawing natural light down from roof skylights through perforated metal balustrades that diffuse both daylight and coloured LED light across all levels.
The result is a space that emphasises verticality as both a structural and experiential idea - one that mirrors Harry The Hirer's belief that events know no upper limit.
Technically, the project demanded close coordination between heritage constraints, structural intervention and an evolving design program. Navigating that complexity while maintaining cost discipline and delivery certainty was as much a part of the brief as the design itself.
The finished space sets a new benchmark for experiential workplaces: bold, immersive, and entirely singular.