Architecture and Design: A Tour of Melbourne’s Design-Centric Food Spots

Architecture and Design: A Tour of Melbourne’s Design-Centric Food Spots

We recently had some clients from New Zealand come town who we are working on a retail precinct project with alongside NH Architecture. As our city has some of the best design for hospitality, showing them around and exploring what can be done with food-focused spaces allowed a conversation to start and inspiration to be drawn. This is an integral process to elevate a project to a level that sets it apart from the rest. 

Walk through the tour we took the team on and see where inspiration is being drawn from in our city of Melbourne. 

Architecture and Design: Eat Drink Design Awards 2016

Architecture and Design: Eat Drink Design Awards 2016

The Eat Drink Design Awards are an annual event celebratinginnovation and excellence in the design of hospitality premises of all scales and types, retail environments for the sale of food and beverages and visual identities for both. We’ve selected our favourites from each category within our hometown of Melbourne. Some we’ve tried, others are on the top of the list but all-in-all these are the places that are paving the way for great design in the hospitality category.

Architecture and Design: Back of House

Architecture and Design: Back of House

We’ve learnt a lot about BOH design over the years as we’ve watched some set-ups fail to function and others thrive on clever design. It’s one of those things that unless you’ve been in BOH spaces a lot, it’s hard to know what will and won’t work and how to incorporate that into something that also looks great. So, here are four key points we always consider with the design team when thinking about back-of-house design to ensure the space functions well...

Architecture and Design: Front of House

Architecture and Design: Front of House

Front of house (FOH) design is mostly about creating a space that customers can engage with and feel comfortable in meaning it is more to do with the psychology of your customers rather than the actual food. FOH design has the power to convey your offer’s message within the first glance as well as ensure a customer feels welcome in the space, can move through the space with ease and purchase everything they might want and need from their visit before exiting the outlet feeling comfortable and content...