hospitality

Journey of refinement – Melbourne

400 Gradi is an Italian restaurant located in East Brunswick, Melbourne. It features an interior inspired by the rustic Italian heritage of the food and the venue, featuring terrazzo surfaces and concrete render textures. Dean Dyson Architects reimagined this existing industrial heritage interior into a modern version of refined rustic, creating and capturing the owner's passion for...

Created from coastal sand – Mexico

Located in front of the Pacific Coast and immersed in the landscape of La Barra de Colotepec, Mexico,in the state of Oaxaca and designed by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, Cassa Sforza hotel develops from the idea of being aware of the environment, the contemplation and respect for the environment where the delta of the Colotepec river...

Paying homage – New Zealand

Having acquired the Northern Steamship building in Auckland, New Zealand, the client came to CTRL Space with an opportunity to deliver a contemporary & casual Gastropub in downtown Britomart. With a portfolio of restaurants dotted throughout the area, the clients understood what was missing from the market. Drawing inspiration and reference from successful day-time pubs across Australia,...

The Shuck Shuck

The Shuck Shuck is an interior fit out for a new food concept in Vancouver’s Chinatown, on East Pender Street. The concept uses oysters as a vessel, combining them with novel, worldly ingredients, sustainable practices, and a highly social environment. Labelled as a non-traditional restaurant, the urban grazing stop strives to be the place to connect people and shellfish in transition times -...

Add a pinch of Cinnamon – Ireland

Ballsbridge is an affluent Dublin neighbourhood in Ireland filled with tree-lined avenues and beautiful Victorian red-brick estates, and Cinnamon Restaurant which is the city’s third venue of the eponymous brand. Local based interior design studio Kingston Lafferty Design have made the most of the property’s small footprint to create a multifunctional, engaging environment that is best described as playful and...

Escaping every day life

Sala Chaweng is a colour infused and playful 144-room hotel in Samui Island’s Chaweng Beach that is dedicated to providing an escape from every day life. Located on one of the most beautiful beaches in the Gulf of Thailand. It has 2 phases, 52-room for the Beachfront and 82-room for the Roadside. These two areas are divided by a street. Sala Chaweng Beachfront has a...

Contrasting decadent beauty – Japan

Suppose Design Office has transformed an old building built in the 1980s into Hotel Sou, a three-room hotel located on Fukue Island, the largest island in the southern tip of the Goto Islands, Japan. By removing the finishes from the building and cutting out the openings in a sculptural, irregular way, the studio was able to blur the boundaries between...

Played aesthetics – Revisited

Pompen & Verlouw is a new, all-day restaurant located in Den Bosch, a picturesque Dutch town in the south, that takes its name from the 1930s garage that used to occupy the spot. Inspired by the building’s past incarnation as a garage back in the days when cars were still a product of both industrialization and craftsmanship, Amsterdam-based...

A local relationship – Spain Revisited

With a terrace overlooking the beach of Playa de la Barrosa, Spain, a patio with a capacity for 250 people and a restaurant area for 100 diners, El Cuartel del Mar, the new space by the Azotea Grupo, located in an unbeatable location. At an architectural level, Azotea Grupo has relied on the study of Paula Rosales, who was in charge of the award-winning NuBel...

Changing the past

The renovation of an arsenal factory located in Xialao Creek, the suburb of Yichang City, Hubei Province, China was once a military factory, it was gradually shut down and abandoned in the 1990s which now represents the opposite of its past. The project covers an area of about 3 hectares and a construction area of about 13000 square meters. Designed by 3andwich Design and He Wei...