2023 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Faradays
Challenging the norms of how retail spaces should look requires skill and a willing client, particularly when it involves getting sign off from elite global fashion brands. To then add a florist and wine bar to the retail space appears to ignore the conventional rule book. Here, the rawness of the existing historic building provided a perfect backdrop for the playful stretched cotton canvas laid out in a sinuous curve, sometimes tought, sometimes pulled apart, to reveal merchandise. Highly crafted bespoke plinths, benches, counters of stone, timber, plaster, lacquered MDF and glazed cabinets all combine to create a playful, comfortable and effective retail experience.
- Practice
- Cheshire Architects Limited
- Category
- Interior Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
