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After being invited to take over a lease of a subpar café, our client’s brief was to transform a dark, dated and dingy space into a bright, contemporary eatery, and refresh the informal entry to the commercial office building. Read more
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Transformation of a dated café into a bright, contemporary eatery with curated color accents and enhanced outdoor dining, revitalizing a key ground floor site on Worcester Boulevard.

After being invited to take over a lease of a subpar café, our client’s brief was to transform a dark, dated and dingy space into a bright, contemporary eatery, and refresh the informal entry to the commercial office building. Collaborating with the clients and graphic designer, the brief was simple, the energy high and the budget low.

The design response was initially to strip back the heavy dated fixtures and furnishing and rationalise and simplify the internal built form of the space to retain successful elements. We then embraced the ‘white’ of the existing building while using moments of curated colour to soften the space; Green being the hero colour. The scope extended to the outdoor dining area and further enhanced by curated landscape in existing planters.

The result is a bright and inviting eatery which confidently occupies a key ground floor site on the tourist trail of Worcester Boulevard.

1.9K1h 36m

Awards

2022

Local Award (Canterbury) - Hospitality, Winner

NZIA

2022
AwardLocal Award (Canterbury) - Hospitality, Winner
OrganisationNZIA
2022

Resene Colour Award

NZIA

2022
AwardResene Colour Award
OrganisationNZIA

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