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Cheshire Architects’ Milse And Pack & Co.’s Libertine SHORTLISTED FOR TOP RESTAURANT AND BAR DESIGN AWARDS Auckland bar and eatery the Libertine and Cheshire Architects’ latest restaurant Milse are finalists in this year’s international Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. The most prestigious and widely recognised hospitality design awards in the world, the annual UK-based awards celebrate the best food and beverage spaces from around the globe. Now in its fifth year, the 2013 awards attracted 670 entries from 61 countries with a shortlist of 190 projects from some of the world’s leading architects, interior designers and hospitality operators making the cut. The Libertine in the newly redeveloped Victoria Park Market is a finalist in the Australasia & Pacific bar category. Designed by Pack & Company’s creative director Sam Ansley, the freethinking space features a suspended floor taking advantage of the large North-West facing windows and a huge tree towering over the bar area. Dessert restaurant Milse is a finalist in the Australasia & Pacific restaurant category. Designed by Cheshire Architects as a hidden gem within the Britomart Pavilions development, this crystalline, cave-like eatery is getting rave reviews and just last week took the title of best hospitality space at the New Zealand Interior Awards.
This is the second year in a row that both design teams have made the finals, with Cheshire’s Café Hanoi and Pack & Co’s Roxy making the shortlist last year. Other New Zealand projects to be shortlisted include Little Nuffield by Material Creative, BinBin Deluxe by Lovelace & Co., and The Matakana Village Pub by Peter Were Architecture & Interiors. The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards are judged by a highly influential panel of top design, lifestyle and hospitality personalities. This year’s judges include Moooi founder and CEO Casper Vissers; senior director of interior design for the Hilton Europe, Chris Webb; head of visual design at Harvey Nichols, Janet Wardley; restaurant critic for The Times, Giles Coren; founder and CTO for Mr & Mrs Smith, Tamara Lohan; and international editor of Time Out, Chris Bourn. Winners will be announced September 12.