Lynas Rare Earths

Attracting and retaining professional people in a competitive mining industry required Lynas to provide a high-quality workplace experience.

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Lynas operates one of the world’s premier Rare Earths deposits at Mt Weld in Western Australia. In addition, it owns and operates the world’s largest single Rare Earths plants in Malaysia. Having grown exponentially with the growth of sustainable EV technologies, Lynas’s move into the Perth CBD marked a new phase in its maturity and market position.

With limited design and construction time, and Lynas having been approached by Unifor, a collaborative partnership to build an exemplary workplace within a budget was implemented.

New partitioning was minimised to the boardroom and reception meeting room and utilised a simple glazing suite designed for Unifor by renown Italian architect Renzo Piano. An innovative ‘Teamer’ Boardroom table by Unifor supported by a single leg is married with residential style Molteni leather crafted board chairs.

Being compact in area, the Reception has a circular informal marble top meeting table designed by Sir Norman Foster with an architecturally moulded concrete base.

Directly connecting the client spaces and the workplace at an apex on the floor, the staff kitchen / breakout space has been fitted out with a modular Molteni Dada kitchen, (Molteni a company within the Unifor Group).Jean Prouve occasional seating, tables and Noguchi lighting by Vitra completes the space.

Sit to stand Unifor 120o workstations created a fluid workspace and this methodology flows into a small number of glazed offices, all spaces bathed in natural light from the large penthouse windows. Seamless, unobtrusive technology throughout with a diversity of spaces supports a “work anywhere” culture.

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