NEC Innovation Centre
By CUSTANCE
As one of the world’s leading providers of communications networks and IT solutions, NEC wanted to ensure its Wellington head office reflected its role, championed its technology, nurtured its staff and inspired its clients.
With a client focused on innovation, Custance created new ways to employ and showcase NEC’s technology. On entering, a stimulating interactive space reveals a technology playground, showcasing the best high tech, soft touch design principles.
The creative use of space, materials and decorative enhancements create a myriad of meeting and exchange spaces, with integrated screen based technology within arms reach. Throughout, this is a place of discovery and surprises, with the subtle integration of materials and form encouraging natural cohesion and energised interaction.
Custance enthusiastically accepted the brief and proceeded to create a visionary and unique environment where our people can share their knowledge of our products and technologies to help transform our company into a more solution focused organisation. This transition was apparent almost immediately.
Peter Davies
CFO, NEC NZ
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Over 30 years Custance has become a respected and multi-award winning practice. Using our collective knowledge, experience and empathy, we have created spaces that transform people’s lives and better equip them to accommodate change.
The tools we traditionally use are strategic planning, architecture, interior design and industrial design, however we have learned to wield them in different ways. We have developed these tools to allow people and organisations to experience space that is fully human and fully alive; space to live well, to create, to innovate and to grow – to enable face to face contact in a way that digital space does not.
Clients return to us in both New Zealand and for 14 years now, Australia, where we’ve built a multi-disciplinary, trans-Tasman practice that focuses on people and their well being, not just the places we build for them. We believe in human touch and those two words hold the secret of our longevity.
Before we begin any commission, whether a home , a corporate interior, a new building, an urban master plan or a strategic vision, we begin by discovering answers to fundamental human questions. Who? What? Why? For us these come before the traditional ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ of the brief and build specifications. They help us see beyond immediate needs. They help us understand people and design spaces that have enduring value.