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The Galeries Victoria food court
For The Galeries Victoria, the brief was to rejuvenate a tired existing food court located below ground level in Sydney’s CBD. A strategy and direction was workshopped with the client to provide a subterranean, boutique-style dining experience. Considerations included the fact that there were pre-existing food courts in the CBD and that a new Westfield food court would open before the completion of the Galeries.
The design concept aims to redefine all facets of the dining experience in a typical food-court approach, setting it apart from its counterparts in the CBD. The food court links inspiration from the existing mix of avant-garde fashion retailers, the current clientele and location with the art of consumption and conveys this through bespoke design elements, materials palette, texture, lighting and furniture. Visual and tactile juxtapositions – nature verses technology, warm natural materials verses raw concrete, and art verses functionality – are driving elements in providing an inviting yet richly dynamic dining venue. Ceramics from Japan, Spain and Italy are used extensively, and were selected for their sculptural qualities, reaction to light and textural attributes. The architects chose a warm neutral palette to allow individual tenancies to inject their own colours – now, tenant palettes embracing greens and yellow, orange through to red, and black and white contribute to the total visual composition.
A grand staircase in the primary void enhances the link, visually and physically, between ground and lower ground levels – the food court and specialty retailers – and provides an entry point to the food court directly from street level.
Breaking away from the traditional mass dining hall approach, the dining area allows for a variety of dining experiences. There is high and low communal bench-style seating and a more intimate semi-enclosed central dining box reminiscent of a private dining room in a restaurant. This diversity caters for a broad clientele, from the youth and CBD blue-collar workers through to inner-city residents, executives and fashionistas, and allows for the traditional fast food grab and counter service to coexist with the slow food dining experience. It also provides the flexibility to adapt and transform the space from a day venue to one for evening dining.
Technology integrates with raw aesthetics. A full-height wall of multimedia screens alters the quality and feel of the dining environment. This ever-changing medium can be programmed to promote, inspire and celebrate milestone dates. Light fixtures and furniture by Diesel for Foscarini, Tom Dixon and Established & Sons feature throughout the space. Their selections are provocative and allude to fashion and nature.
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