THE WARATAH

Builder: Something Constructions
Photography: Chad Konik

A modern take on a classic local neighbourhood bar, inspired by the recollection and connection to the Australian landscape.

A design approach that plays with ideas around memory.

“The beauty of the imperfect recollection.”

Viewing the Waratahs and their surrounding landscape through this distorted uneven filter. An opportunity to handpick, deconstruction and abstract what is celebrate. Tinged with nostalgic, reconnection to the land and its plant life.

Giving the design the ability to play with flora in its full and deconstructed forms. There are literal celebrations of the Waratah landscape in the commissioned hand-painted mural by Sarah McCloskey across the main ground ceiling, a beautiful link to the personal, and taking inspiration from our client’s mother’s botanical sketches.

And then there are the more abstracted deconstructed forms from the shaping of the pods and leaf profiles which shape the bars, the fixed custom joinery pieces, the profile details, and even the custom light fixtures by Volker Haug in the level 1 bar. The results are spaces that pull all the flora elements back as a new whole that is beautiful, bold, and easy.

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