Architect：MARCH STUDIO AUSTRALIA

Location：Flinders Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia; | ;

Project Year：2013

Category：Restaurants

The resolution of the design was limited by one-way curving fibreglass sheet, not two way curving mouldings. Open at each end, the arching form connects wall and ceiling, moving through the undercroft space and then billowing out into the double height void. The fibreglass sheet, limited to only being able to curve in one direction, results in a shape that evokes the trumpeting horn of a phonograph. The soft acoustics amplify onto James Street as a result.

The ceiling is a multilevelled hierarchy, flowing in an ordered arrangement from mirrored wall to windowed façade. Hand-folded brass responds to the booths, each shape enclosing purpose-built spots that light each table and containing bespoke perforated steel to diffuse sound. In between, brass tubes hold mechanical services and custom-grille covered speakers. And further between these, yellow zinc-plated steel tubes hold further services.

The tables are all in booths; semicircular embraces of soft leather and pale timber. Staff can move effortlessly between the two rows to serve across the open ends of each table.

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