Salvation Army HQ

This highly-glazed steel frame building contains a first-floor chapel walled in amber glass which projects over St Peter’s Hill; daylight is filtered through louvres. Sheer glass walls surround three sides of the building and are emblazoned with quotes from the gospels.

The Salvation Army owned 99/101 Queen Victoria Street, but no longer needed the whole building; the redevelopment released over 8,000m² of lettable office space, effectively providing a new building at no cost to the Army. The new development was designed as two independent buildings - one the Salvation Army headquarters, the other speculative offices; two separate parts with a consistent elevational treatment of the larger whole.

36,770m², Sheppard Robson, 2005.