After being invited to take over a lease of a subpar café, our client’s brief was to transform a dark, dated and dingy space into a bright, contemporary eatery, and refresh the informal entry to the commercial office building. Collaborating with the clients and graphic designer, the brief was simple, the energy high and the budget low.
The design response was initially to strip back the heavy dated fixtures and furnishing and rationalise and simplify the internal built form of the space to retain successful elements. We then embraced the ‘white’ of the existing building while using moments of curated colour to soften the space; Green being the hero colour. The scope extended to the outdoor dining area and further enhanced by curated landscape in existing planters.
The result is a bright and inviting eatery which confidently occupies a key ground floor site on the tourist trail of Worcester Boulevard.
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Johnstone Callaghan Architects is an award-winning studio based in Ōtautahi Christchurch and working across Aotearoa New Zealand.
The design led studio, formed in 2019 by Prue Johnstone and Mike Callaghan, has since expanded to a small team of architects and designers who specialise in, and are passionate about creating residential and commercial spaces with functionality and detail in mind.
Every project is an opportunity to design simple, considered spaces to be enjoyed, celebrated, and lived in for generations beyond our own. Our aim is to deliver responsive architecture to great clients and have fun doing it.
Johnstone Callaghan Architects have received an impressive array of local and national architecture and design awards since their inception from Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects, Designers Institute of New Zealand ‘Best Awards’ and the national ‘Interior Awards’ programme.
Johnstone Callaghan Architects have also been published in a book ‘Small Holiday Homes’, and architecture magazines including ‘Here’ and ‘Green Magazine’ in Australia.
Find more information about Johnstone Callaghan Architects here.
Johnstone Callaghan Architects is a Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects Registered Practice.
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