NZ finalists in international awards
Entrance to Libertine by Pack & Company.
Booth style seating sits alongside large, functional tables in the dining area.
Libertine bar and eatery.
Entrance to Milse by Cheshire Architects.
Rear wall detail at Milse.
Screen and ceiling detail at Milse.
Now in its fifth year, the UK-based Restaurant & Bar Design Awards celebrates the best food and beverage spaces from around the globe. The 2013 awards attracted 670 entries from 61 countries with a shortlist of 190 projects making the cut.
Libertine, in the redeveloped Victoria Park Market, is a finalist in the Australasia & Pacific bar category. Designed by Pack & Company’s creative director Sam Ansley, the freethinking space features a suspended floor taking advantage of the large northwest-facing windows and a huge tree towering over the bar area.
Dessert restaurant Milse is a finalist in the Australasia & Pacific restaurant category. Designed by Cheshire Architects as a hidden gem within the Britomart Pavilions development, this crystalline, cave-like eatery is getting rave reviews and took out the title of best hospitality space at the 2013 New Zealand Interior Awards.
This is the second year in a row that both design teams have made the finals, with Cheshire’s Café Hanoi and Pack & Co’s the Roxy making the shortlist last year.
Other New Zealand projects to be shortlisted include Little Nuffield by Material Creative, BinBin Deluxe by Lovelace & Co, and The Matakana Village Pub by Peter Were Architecture & Interiors.
The 2013 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards judges include Moooi founder and CEO Casper Vissers; senior director of interior design for the Hilton Europe, Chris Webb; head of visual design at Harvey Nichols, Janet Wardley; restaurant critic for The Times, Giles Coren; founder and CTO for Mr & Mrs Smith, Tamara Lohan; and international editor of Time Out, Chris Bourn.
Winners will be announced 12 September.
