The design is more than open-plan. Created from the workstation outwards - latest model Herman Miller chairs, flexible plywood booth panels - it is about environmental sustainability, not just because that is the way all buildings will go legally, but because it is better for the staff. Grose says it is not a minimalist building but that it comes from minimalist principles. "Human beings like to breathe fresh air and be lit by sunlight," he says.
The building, for all its lack of 'arrogance'; its resistance to 'capital-A architecture'; the emphasis on being a workplace project; will stand or fall on its contribution to NAB'S cultural change and recovery. Cornell's Becker says some of this success can be measured quantitatively: "How many people can it accommodate, in what amount of square feet. How much does it cost to operate over its life? These are conventional real-estate metrics." But that won't say anything about its cultural role. "Other goals, like how the building contributes to the attraction and retention of employees over time; how it fosters new patterns of communication and collaboration; how it affects employee morale, how it strengthens and promotes the bank as a brand, and so on, take longer to emerge."
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