2024 Eat Drink Design Awards – shortlist revealed

Among the many 62 shortlisted tasks are two venues in Arrowtown’s Ayrburn complicated — The Barrel Room, and restored farm constructing The Manure Room — each designed by Alexander and Co., and a hanging Orient Specific-style membership lounge in Auckland designed by CTRL Area known as The Nightcar. This yr, these New Zealand tasks will go up in opposition to robust illustration from Australia’s areas.

Eat Drink Design Awards jury convenor and editor, Cassie Hansen, discovered that many tasks on this yr’s shortlist pushed the bounds of the norm to create one thing surprising and surreal:

“This yr the jury applauded the numerous eating places, bars and cafes wanting removed from the normal and making a huge impact with nearly an otherwordly design. Patrons might be transported to fantastical locations after they go to these venues, whether or not it’s a barely alien panorama or a brand new nation.” Additionally acknowledging the unbelievable consideration to element displayed in heritage renovations, Hansen provides: “Equally transformative have been the heritage buildings that had been expertly up to date, or had discovered new objective by means of adaptive reuse, re-envisioned as hospitality venues.”

The 2024 jury had the tough activity of choosing this yr’s shortlist from tons of of entries, with Hansen noting a number of notable tendencies amongst the chosen tasks:

“The jury noticed a transfer in the direction of darkish, moody and intimate interiors in lots of venues, with low, discreet lighting that makes your eating expertise really feel very intimate, secret and maybe slightly risqué. In the same vein of intimacy typically we simply need to really feel like we’re eating at a really unique spot — whether or not or not it’s your good friend’s cool home or a non-public artwork gallery. We famous many hospitality interiors this yr that really feel like this type of non-public enviornment, usually helped alongside by an unbelievable artwork assortment.”

The 2024 jury consists of:

The Award classes for the 2024 Eat Drink Design Awards embody:

Greatest Bar Design
Greatest Restaurant Design
Greatest Café Design
Greatest Lodge Design
Greatest Retail Design
Greatest Id Design

As well as, annually one longstanding venue is honoured with induction into the Eat Drink Design Awards Corridor of Fame.

View the entire 2024 Eat Drink Design Awards shortlist right here.

The winners of the Eat Drink Design Awards shall be revealed at 10:00 am, Friday 1 November 2024 within the Eat Drink Design Awards gallery. An official awards report may also seem within the InteriorsAu eNewsletter and ArchitectureAU.com.