Joint Winner
Best Restaurant Design
Designer
Fiona Lynch Office
Location
Sydney, New South Wales
Jury comment —
Kiln takes hotel dining to new heights, literally. Perched atop the Ace Hotel in the heart of downtown Sydney, its design plugs into current conversations about sustainability, collaboration and community. Collaborations with local artisans, including Henry Wilson and Spacecraft Studio, honour the site's history – it hosted Australia's oldest known ceramic kilns during the 1820s. For Kiln, pigments were mixed out of waste materials recovered from the site. Despite Ace's global presence, the restaurant's palette of dusky pinks, greens and blues are of the Australian landscape. Locally sourced materials echo this, from leather tabletops to stone floors and raw timber furniture. The space is original and playful, its manylayered interiors inviting discovery. Further,…
