This sleek, contemporary Bar and Restaurant enhances the vitality of Central Park and the CBD, exposed to high volumes of pedestrian traffic, and providing a spatially diverse, vibrant and accessible venue.

The faceted steel and glass structure draws its form from the unique site, relating to the faceted canopy of Central Park, providing a visible continuity of existing built elements.

The design intent of this fit-out was to echo the juxtaposition of leafy calmness that the Central Park gardens foliage provides to this buzzing CBD precinct.

Most built components, including 90% of the feature lighting, were unique design concepts detailed and executed successfully, a testimony to innovation and excellence.

The Bar and Restaurant was designed around the existing base building to minimise wastage and used most of the base building fitout as was provided. Sustainability commences with the use of an existing structural deck obviating the need for footings and sub structure.

Extensive use of sustainable timber was integral to the design. A palette of timber finishes is used with abstracted tree branch-like

A backlit natural stone counter provides warmth and elegance. The juxtaposition of chaos and calm is continued throughout the space, with the polycarbonate tube screen and the suspended aluminium ‘tube’ lighting grid of the mezzanine level, which soothe the more expressive base building skin.

The design team participated in elaborate prototyping processes to achieve the desired effect of the intricately detailed main bar timber and light fin bottle display/canopy, the uniformly back lit natural onyx stone counter, the internally lit polycarbonate tube screening and the extruded tubes with Swarovski crystal ceiling lighting grid.

The design was responsive to a dynamic brief, facility owner and venue operator.

The new venue provides an increased level of hospitality (after working hours) within the surrounding plaza and garden areas, which were previously quite sterile.