Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
Why Enter
Whether you are a design creator or a design commissioner you can make your mark on the Melbourne design scene by entering the Melbourne Design Awards.
Design Creator
• Gain recognition for your design achievement
• Increase awareness of your work and gain design public and peer comment
• Increased exposure to your potential customers and clients • Bench mark your work with your peers
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure
Design Commissioner
• Provides a mark of distinction for your product
• Further evidence of excellence in product development
• Bench mark your product with those of your peers
• Increased exposure of your brand / product
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure
Description
This award recognises building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes and aesthetic presentation. Consideration given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
Current entries
Hasti Bala @ The Carlton
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
The Carlton Hotel is a quirky, 100 year old, five level building, situated in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Since the buildings renovations began in 2006, under new owner Tracey Lester, it has quickly become a popular city institution. Formerly a seedy late night bar and rooming house for the seriously down and out, the eclectic new interior design has secured a varied and regular patronage from cool and arty tipplers to corporate clients looking to be treated to the eccentric décor. Since re-opening the main bar on the first floor, a generous balcony overlooking Bourke St and two lusciously, tropical rooftops gardens on the third and fifth floors have been added to the venue. The new space, Hasti Bala was to be an indoor space adjoining the existing rooftop, Deck Bar on the third floor, designed to create a new point of interest and new “destination area” within the existing venue!
Global Professional Consulting Firm
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
Our client, a global professional consulting firm, is like a doctor for organisations. The firm is appointed by often competing businesses to advise on business, approach, and policy. It is for this reason that the organisation is fragmented for much of the time in order to keep information safe. Teams are formed to work on projects for a set duration. Cross-fertilization mostly occurs within smaller project teams. Despite this, our client wanted the design to reflect the power of one firm. It was crucial that team members were not isolated and that collaboration on neutral territory was possible.
Doherty Lynch Office
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
This interior was part of a holistic rebranding process for the client. A contemporary office shell on a busy road, it required a full fit-out to transform it into a highly functional compact workspace for eight that reflected the new branding direction for this business.
Hawk & Hunter Cafe
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
The design for Hawk and Hunter café in Ripponlea is one that provokes and entices patrons with a quirky fitout synonymous with the Tommy Collins brand. The simplicity of the layout and the finish engenders a vibrant, warm space in an area crying out for quality food, coffee and atmosphere.
Plantation
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
The Plantation brand invokes associations with the colonial era– leafy coffee plantations and ornate architecture. In creating a flag-ship home for this brand, the design team translated these references into the space at the Melbourne Central Dining Hall through the use of warm and tactile materials and customer focused planning.
Mercure Treasury Gardens, Melbourne
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
WMK Architecture’s concept for the refurbishment was the notion of “The city meets the park”. This vision was inspired by the Hotel’s unique location within Melbourne’s CBD overlooking the beautiful Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens. With this in mind, WMK set out to give the Mercure Melbourne Treasury Gardens an edgy “boutique feel” catering for the hotel’s existing target market and draws new types of guests to the property. The rooms are contemporary and inviting, allowing its key design features to speak for themselves. The guests are greeted with a bold custom carpet, which blends Mercure’s brand colour palette with other complimenting colours representing the gardens that surround the site and the vibrant urban lifestyle of the city. The guests will then experience a unique aspect of Melbourne through a series of curated architectural images, photographed especially for the project, which are printed onto fabric and form part of feature bedheads. All bathrooms were fully refurbished, allowing the compact space to be used more efficiently by eliminating the bath to make way for a shower with frameless glass screen. The design injects a sense of local flavour while maintaining all the functionality demanded by Accor and its discerning guests.
roofPOP!
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
roofPOP! began with the fundamental qualities of temporary and sustainable, plus a connection to parent bar, Rooftop. Originally we intended to reuse Rooftop’s discarded plastic cups on mass as a sustainable design generator. Whilst this wasn’t possible, it inspired the eventual design solution and is key to the concept of recycled cups generating ‘bubbles’. Our overall material strategy was to prioritise recyclability, thus plywood, paint, paper, plastic cups and fake grass were used.
Circa - Prince of Wales Hotel St. Kilda
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
The Prince of Wales Hotel in St. Kilda Melbourne has been an institution within the local community since 1936. From the beginning the venue has attracted a young, stylish, and vibrant clientele. Over the past 70+ years it became known for its culture of bohemianism and as home to many prominent artists, musicians, and subcultures. More recently it has received countless awards for its architectural design, food, and hotel service. "Meme" was approached by new owner Julian Gerner (2011) to carefully upgrade the "CIRCA" bar and dining room to a more laid back and attainable atmosphere. Mindful of the building's history and predecessors, the challenge was to once again re-invent and reconfigure the space by complimenting the existing bones through traces of change. Spaces were re-programmed and activated to engage and also reflect the Melbourne Pub Group's own "savvy" brand (also owners of The Middle Park Hotel, Albert Park Hotel, Royal Saxon and New Market Hotel). The new look of Circa, amongst its brothers and sisters, offers a crowd attracting destination bar.
Albert St Food & Wine
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
Albert St Food & Wine is an all-day eatery, wine bar, and food and wine store in the heart of Brunswick’s Sydney Road. It revitalizes an old bank building on a prominent corner site to create a dynamic space in one of Melbourne’s most diverse neighbourhoods. Previous refurbishments have been peeled back to reveal original building features such as timber floorboards and an intricate ceiling of riveted steel beams and timber joists. North-facing windows have been uncovered to fill the soaring space with natural light, and the old bank vault has become the wine cellar. The discovery of an old photo in the State Bank Archives has led to the reinstatement of the original entry portico on the corner. The main bar is located at the centre of the space, where the bank counter once stood. Brass mesh panels hovering above the bar evoke old tellers’ screens and divide the large volume into several more intimate zones.
Platform3
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
The Box Hill train stations have a vivid and colorful history that has been the source of inspiration for the urban and unique bistro, "Platform 3". Box Hill's original station opened in 1882. During 1895, a large market opened next to the station. The early industrial feat and social market feel has been the starting point for the concept of Platform 3. It has adopted a design that celebrates and offers homage to the history of the area. Platform 3 is situated right in the heart of the century old Box Hill Centro Shopping Center. Conceived as an elusive waiting lounge, sitting above the railway station, the new ‘platform’ offers a room for transit for the commuters. It is a unique place that is more than just a bistro but a place that locals can relate to and feel being a part of. The success of this project was based on the place-making approach to design and looked beyond the brief. The idea of materialism was challenged with the strong use of industrial and hard wearing materials to reflect the history of the area whilst being set in a shopping center environment.
George Patterson Y & R
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
The 'studio' office environment suits the creative team at George Patterson Y&R. Presentation spaces and informal lounges, together with formal workstations and a reception area, form a practical modern office. The large open spaces and high ceilings of the original nineteenth century building informed the approach of the design which sought to retain many of the heritage architectural features. Bespoke furniture and joinery create flexible and collaborative work areas, with bookcases and different floor finishes defining areas instead of walls. The result allows daylight to permeate the spaces without being inhibited by walls or other divisions.
Ramen Ya
Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality
RamenYa is a casual ‘no frills’ restaurant selling authentic Japanese noodles in the style of a modern Japanese Ramen bar. The owners’ philosophy is to combine fresh and nutritious food in an elegant yet simple setting with value for money.
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