In our second slice of hospitality projects that put real creative meat on the bones of hotels and restaurants, we offer an international survey of recently completed dining destinations that serve up strong concepts with considered execution. These are anything but lean times. <b>Higher Ground, Melbourne, Australia</b> DesignOffice Australian architectural practice DesignOffice’s Higher Ground restaurant project in Melbourne is certainly cooking with gas. The large-scale interior volume of an old, brick power station has been converted into a dining venue where the material fabric of the structure’s old programme is still legible. Maintaining the open space overall, the architects’ have intervened in the form of series of tiered platforms, which, interconnected, provide a greater sense of intimacy and playful perspective for patrons. Concrete provides a material and textural counterpoint to the exposed brick of the original structure, with columns emphatically punctuating the… continue
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