Projects
Interiors
'The Jane'
March Studio
16.02.15
March Studio's 'The Jane' is a 46' Pilot House cruising gaff rigged cutter, carvel planked over steam bent frames of all timber construction. March worked with the traditional boatbuilders to effect a deft rework of what a fishing boat can be.
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Hotel Hotel
March Studio
15.02.14
Located in NewActon, a diverse new precinct in Canberra, Nishi Commercial is a major new development housing government departments, private offices, a cinema and cafes. The lobby, designed by March Studio, projects a unique identity through thousands of lengths of repurposed timber, blurring boundaries while directing views and movement.
A grand stair - the stage for performances as much as idle procrastination - leads up to the HotelHotel lobby and bar. In the stair the timber is heavy, grounded, a stacked agglomeration. Freed to scatter up the walls and across the ceiling, the suspended timber filters exterior light and views into and from internal spaces. Spidery, pixellated shadows are cast on the floor and bare walls.
The stair links Nishi Commercial to Nishi Residential, a multi-storey apartment building, housing two floors of hotel rooms, wrapped around a central courtyard and light well. The ground floor contains HotelHotel's lobby, reception, concierge and bar, as well as retail and hospitality tenancies.
Interiors
Sneakerboy
March Studio
13.10.13
The way in which we shop has changed dramatically over the past few years. Yet as High Street shopping is replaced with the convenience of the online store, the experience of touching, trying, and smelling an object will never be replaced. Whilst some of the larger chains are struggling to implement web based change, the new Sneakerboy concept store is taking it to another level.
Interiors
Ester Restaurant and Bar
Anthony Gill Architects
10.10.13
Ester Restaurant & Bar is located in a former loading dock of a two storey warehouse in Sydney’s Chippendale. Masterfully transformed by Anthony Gill Architects, this deceivingly simple interior pays respect to it’s semi-industrial context, resulting in a contemporary dining hot-spot with a robust and sophisticated feel. The project involved a total re-imagining of the space to create a restaurant that sat comfortably on the edge of the city. The client had specific demands for the operation, centred around the wood fired oven. The needs of the kitchen were delicately balanced with the desires for the dining room, making sure the proportions of the overall space were right. The clearly defined segregation of the restaurant and the bar were brought together through the introduction of parabolic arches, creating a new layer which unites the old and the new, and separating the served from the serviced.
Source: http://www.yellowtrace.com.au/ester-restaurant-anthony-gill-architects/
Interiors
Love Story Fremantle
MORQ
12.09.13
MORQ's refurbishment of a small non-descript commercial space into a bespoke clothing shop. The work is modest, but its brief is ambitious: the owner was trying to gain access to an exclusive European label, which selects its international resellers based on the quality and uniqueness of their retail spaces. To meet the clients’ aspirations, the new space needed to convey a sense of unique identity, display craftsmanship, and create a quality of space comparable to the best international clothing boutiques. We found the existing envelope of the space to be of average nature, and the interior to have no quality as a result. In response to such existing conditions, the project needed to generate an overarching radical transformation of the inner space, materiality, and light-condition, as opposed to a more traditional refurbishment approach. The proposal is that of an ‘inner skin’ enveloping the interior space, a plywood cocoon, informed by the grain and texture of timber, and by its ability to soften the natural light filtering through from the front window. To enhance the visual and tactile qualities of the traditionally economical plywood, the internal sheeting was lightened with a whitewash, and finished with burnt amber-wax. The palette of materials also includes waxed mill-finished stainless steel for all exposed metalwork and resinous cement finish to all floors and stair. While small in size, this project embodies the challenges of an articulated interior project and offers an engaging public experience of how a refurbishment can generate a place with its own cohesive identity, immersive atmosphere, and a subtle sense of belonging.
Interiors
QT Hotel
Fabio Ongarato Design
06.05.13
Believe the hype! This place is a fantastical wonderland of ex-retail unreality.
Fabulous custom design features reference the building's former life as one of Sydney's most iconic retail establishments. Gothic, naughty and surreal elements suprise around every corner.
Interiors
Carnsworth House
Jackson Clements Burrows
01.05.13
Light streams into this wonderful 1960's family home, re-invented.
Contemporary furnishings sit elegantly within warm timber lined rooms and colours complement the clients' art collection. The sexy and sophisticated powder room provides extra glamour.
Interiors
Scandinavian Freestyle
FIona Abicare/Minifie van Shaik
16.02.13
A stylish new entry lobby space has been designed for the Hero Apartments by MvS Architects and Fiona Abicare in association.
Completed in 1954, the former Russell Street Telephone Exchange & Post Office designed by the Commonwealth Department of Works is a unique multi-storey CBD building; the first to be completed after WW11 and the last to express the architectural traditions of solid masonry.
Influenced by European Modernism, in particular the Amsterdam School and Scandinavian Freestyle Classicism, the interlocking unadorned mass of cream-brick features in its 2001 re-development - Hero Apartments by Nonda Katsalidis Architects - via intersecting interior vertical planes, structural plates, and green columns.
Scandinavian Freestyle develops a language of materiality in relation to the formal qualities and associated styles present within the foyers’ interior. The project developed through a process of removing temporary structures, fixtures and adorning features. Through this process the foyer is activated by natural light and the spatial and material interconnectivities of its original forms. Objects were designed to enhance aesthetic experiences and for specific functions:seating and mail retrieval, while drapery, upholstery and artwork also present a functionality.
An emphasis on the ‘complete interior’ describes the process and project’s ambitions: to develop relations between art, décor, interior architecture and utility objects and present artistic material, configured in relationship to surrounding context and history.
Interiors
Lavender Bay Boat Shed
Stephen Collier Architects
21.09.12
Built within one of only two 19th century timber boat sheds remaining in this part of Sydney Harbour, this apartment offers a playful but considered take on its privileged setting. The bones of the existing shed, warped and twisted with time, are left exposed to tell their story, while skylights frame spectacular views of the Harbour Bridge. Interiors, meanwhile, do their best to compete with the rarefied location. Warm timber floors, a spray of coloured tiles in the bathroom and, in a glamourously eccentric flourish, gold floors in the lower levels ensure the project has plenty of personality to offer though beyond its eye-popping views.
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The Association London
Herbert & Mason
27.07.12
With its raw finishes and robust material palette, this cafe fit-out by the young but prodigious practice Herbert & Mason would look perfectly at home tucked down a Melbourne laneway. But while Melbourne is home for Herbert & Mason, the lucky city that plays home to The Association is London. Together with the recent, award-winning Reuben Hills cafe in Sydney, and its earlier work with Gingerboy Upstairs in Melbourne, the practice is developing a strong reputation for taut, elegantly understated hospitality design.
Interiors
Illuminami Rome
Russell & George
11.07.12
First Melbourne, then the world.
Prolific and prodigiously talented duo Russell & George have built a huge name for themselves in Australia, thanks to their witty and inventive approach to retail and hospitality design. This fit-out for a lighting store in Rome, Italy, marks the opening of their European office and displays all of their signature verve and refinement.
Watch this space, as they say...
Interiors
Coda Studio Fremantle
Coda Studio
29.06.12
The interior of Coda Studio's new Fremantle office is a perfect expression of this practice's sensibility and ethos. Made from ply and recycled materials, the fit-out boasts a warm and textured materiality, while vintage furniture adds an eclectic, human touch. Everything in the 300sqm-odd project is designed to be demountable, so that the materials can be readily used elsewhere if need be, reducing the potential for future waste. Remarkably, the whole fit-out was completed for AU$350k.
Interiors
Baker D. Chirico
March Studio
17.11.11
Bread is a simple product, of few ingredients, traditionally displayed and sold simply. The art of a baker such as D. Chirico is to perfect a simple process and do it like few others. The results are evident in their reputation.
At the Carlton edition of Baker D. Chirico, this concept has inspired the interior, the simple purpose of which is to cool the bread fresh out of the oven, to display it naked of packaging and ready to be portioned and sold.
An undulation of CNC routed plywood forms wall and ceiling. Subtractions from the wall provide display areas for bread; the varying depths of the shelves and heights of the subtractions meticulously arranged to accommodate long baguettes, large round pagnotta, ficelle loaves and other creations. The variety and expanse of the wall allows the display to be re-arranged and altered according to mood or season.
Standing in firm counterpoint to the wave of the bread wall, the centre counter is conceived as a giant chopping board, intended to wear and patina gracefully with age and use. Scales, crumb trays, knife holders and POS terminals each have a place on this working bench, all subsumed into the simple sales concept: chop loaf, wrap and sell.