Tag: Hospitality
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Exploring design, culture, and reflection in Barcelona
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Exploring the hospitality scene in Barcelona, founder of CTRL Space, Chris Stevens, muses on whether the city’s more ‘undesigned’ offerings could be replicated in New Zealand.
Tamahere Country Club Café
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The newly completed café in Tamahere by Turner Road Architecture has all the ingredients of a hospitality destination: style, comfort and distinction.
2024 Eat Drink Design Awards - shortlist revealed
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Two projects by Alexander and Co. and one project by CTRL Space has put New Zealand bar design in the spotlight in this prestigious trans-Tasman awards programme.
Metita finalist in global design awards
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Metita by CTRL Space has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, an awards programme celebrating the world’s most creative spaces.
Cabinet of curiosities
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Amanda Harkness explores the dramatic interior narrative, combining the exotic and eclectic with the comfortable, of Wellington’s Naumi Studio Hotel by Material Creative.
Found in translation
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Jeremy Smith samples the high life low down at the a r + d and Bossley Architects-designed Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.
Taking flight: Falcon Brae
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This NZIA Local Award winner takes inspiration from the Pacific Rim, creating a flexible space that offers the comforts of home but can function as a luxury lodge, all poised under an undulating roofline.
Two sides of Sala
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Alongside this boutique gym’s first space, opened in 2018, a second studio space designed by Mijntje Lepoutre offers both continuity and change for the brand.
NZ vs NY: Ahi and Saxon + Parole
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Two recent restaurant additions to Auckland’s Commercial Bay boast some of the best public views of the civic precinct. Federico Monsalve discovers what sets them apart.
Commercial Bay: Saxon + Parole
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Take a first look at the newly-opened Saxon + Parole – the equestrian-themed American restaurant in Auckland’s Commercial Bay.
Food halls of the future: BaseHall
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Linehouse – co-founded by New Zealander – proves hospitality spaces can have all the luxury of fine dining coupled with a dynamic food offering.
Back to the bone
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John Sutherland explores Cheshire Architects’ reoccupation of a former seaplane hangar at Hobsonville Point, Auckland.
Stage directions: Ste. Marie
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Theatre, the fine arts and a high level of empathy are at the core of this Vancouver design practice.
New-age stardom: Dark Sky Project
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Abigail Hurst explores Takapō’s brightest star, a new project by Sheppard & Rout Architects.
Wilderness for the wealthy: The Lindis
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Chris Barton finds the undulating roof lines of this lodge by Architecture Workshop at one with the topography that inspired them.
SO/ Playful: Inside SO/ Auckland
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A hotel in Auckland takes on a volcanic theme and a celebrity fashion designer to inject personality and a lot of oomph.
Long live the Queen: Queen’s Rise
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This 1860s’ Auckland building has been brought back to life by making use of clever design and well-curated hospitality.
‘Anti-style’: El Equipo Creativo
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This Barcelona-based troupe’s self-baptised ‘anti-style’ ethos has given it a serious edge in the hospitality design world.
In good spirits
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See 12 unique buildings dedicated to our favourite tipples: from a rooftop that sprouts wildflowers to a hidden tequila cave.
Serving of cottage pie: Rita restaurant
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A small, unassuming worker’s cottage in Wellington’s Aro Valley has taken on a new lease of life with the opening of Rita.