Bold and captivating: The winners of the 2024 Eat Drink Design Awards

The 2024 Eat Drink Design Awards have been introduced on 31 October in Melbourne, with the successful initiatives spanning a variety of types and kinds, from a tactile, otherworldly Brisbane restaurant to a delightfully playful gelato store in Western Australia.

“This yr’s successful designers are to be counseled for his or her excessive stage of workmanship, daring selections and a spotlight to element,” mentioned the jury.

“The jury noticed a number of venues the place the designers transport visitors to someplace they’ve by no means been earlier than, whether or not it’s a barely alien panorama or a brand new nation. The jury delighted within the eating places, bars and cafes that look removed from the standard and make a big effect,” mentioned the jury.

Winners and commendations of the 2024 Eat Drink Design Awards have been introduced together with this yr’s inductee into the Corridor of Fame, an accolade that acknowledges enduring excellence within the design of a hospitality venue that’s of greater than ten years standing. Designed within the late Nineteen Seventies, Berowra Waters Inn by Glenn Murcutt showcases his distinctive Australian vernacular type, with its corrugated tin roof, glass louvre home windows and sandstone rubble set amongst the eucalypts. Learn the story right here.

The winners are:

Greatest Restaurant Design

Gerard’s – J.AR Workplace

Greatest Bar Design

Bar Besuto – Tom Mark Henry

Greatest Cafe Design

High Tea, Clayton – Wall Architects

Greatest Resort Design

The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne – BAR Studio

Greatest Retail Design

Chicho Gelateria and Manufacturing Lab – Bosske

Greatest Identification Design

Madeleine de Proust – Precept Design

Corridor of Fame

Berowra Waters Inn – Glenn Murcutt

Commendations

See the 11 counseled initiatives right here.

The 2024 jury includes Di Ritter (jury chair and former Eat Drink Design Awards winner), Greg Lamb (co-founder, Hogg and Lamb), Matiya Marovich (principal, Sans-Arc Studio), Pat Nourse (artistic director, Melbourne Meals and Wine Competition) and Rebecca Yazbek (co-founder, Nomad Group).

See the complete gallery of successful and counseled initiatives on the Eat Drink Design Awards web site.

The Eat Drink Design Awards are organized by Structure Media (writer of ArchitectureAu). The 2024 awards’ principal accomplice is Laminex.

The Eat Drink Design Awards are endorsed by the Australian Institute of Architects and the Design Institute of Australia.