V O L 2 2 E D I T I O N 1 1 D E C 2017
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Eat Drink Design Awards Winners 2017 Australasia’s best-designed hospitality venues were named last month in the annual Eat Drink Design Awards which celebrate design excellence and innovation within restaurants, bars, cafés, nightclubs, retail spaces and temporary venues from across Australia and New Zealand. This year, New South Wales dominated the Awards with three venues named as winners in their respective categories, as well as a timeless favourite being inducted into the Eat Drink Design Awards’ Hall of Fame.
Best Bar Design
Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Barangaroo is clearly the place to be in 2017: Campos Barangaroo (designed by Woods Bagot) took out Best Retail Design while Noma Australia (designed by Foolscap Studio) claimed the title of Best Installation Design.
Surprisingly, Melbourne’s CBD was left wanting with Victoria’s only award winners coming from suburban and regional areas.
Best Bar Design – The Dolphin Hotel by George Livissianis, Paddington NSW
Located almost 25 kilometres south west of the city centre, Morris and Heath (designed by Ritz& Ghougassian) flew the flag for Hoppers Crossing, winning Best Café Design, while the highly lauded Jackalope Hotel on the Mornington Peninsula received recognition for Best Identity Design (designed by Fabio Ongarato Design).
The Dolphin Hotel is a treat. Both temporary and permanent, anarchic and cogent, the bar’s interior balances diametric opposites in exquisite tension. Originally a series of rooms for a series of art projects, the spaces work seamlessly together, united by a light-coloured palette.
South Australia was not to be outdone by its eastern counterparts: Viet Next Door (designed by Genesin Studio) in Pennington was awarded Best Restaurant Design.
Whimsical yet disciplined in its approach, The Dolphin Hotel (designed by George Livissianis) in Paddington was awarded Best Bar Design for its immaculate balance of diametric opposites.
The annual Eat Drink Design Awards celebrate design excellence within Australian and New Zealand hospitality premises that have opened to the public in the past 18 months. From high-end restaurants and bars to offbeat, hole-inthe-wall cafes and pop-ups, this program is the authoritative forum for architects, designers and their clients to present their best new projects.
Potts Point’s timelessly ‘theatrical’ Fratelli Paradiso (designed by the late Mike Murphy) becomes the newest long-standing hospitality institution welcomed into the illustrious Eat Drink Design Awards’ Hall of Fame. In an industry characterised by transience, this special accolade acknowledges enduring excellence in the design of a hospitality venue of more than 10 years’ standing.
“This year’s entries were united by a sweeping sense of ambition across all categories – one focused on careful detail. Within the scope of such ambition we saw more genteel and conservative entries, and entries with irony, verve and wit. The winners in each category display multiple such qualities, combined with a sense of rigour in the application of detail and materials,” said Cassie Hansen, jury chair.
The Dolphin Hotel is successful both day and night, an achievement that is unusual in itself. The effect of the interior has been achieved in an economical and parsimonious way, and the overall impression is of an interior that doesn’t take itself or anything too seriously. Perhaps one of the most important outcomes of the creation of The Dolphin Hotel is that it has inserted itself provocatively into the conversation about Sydney’s lockout laws, as the temporary pop-up that stayed put. ....Continued next page