Maple + Cove by Mathieson Architects

ArchiPro Project Summary - Maple + Cove: An all-day dining café in Barton, Canberra, featuring a blend of wholefoods, raw concrete, limestone, and oak timber, with a geometric design that enhances dining experiences and connects to the outdoor Realm Precinct Park.

Title:: Maple + Cove
Architect:: Mathieson Architects
Category:: Commercial/; Interiors

Maple + Clove is an all day dining café located in Barton, Canberra, and overlooks the Realm Precinct Park.

With an emphasis on wholefoods, Maple + Clove features a palette of raw concrete, limestone clad columns, and oak timber floors. A geometric dark coloured ceiling conceals acoustic panelling, with accents of bright orange lacquered lighting troughs.

A simple geometry divides the space into dining, take-away, and an open kitchen. The dining area is furnished with leather banquettes and individual tables that flank two central communal tables and timber stools. Modular steel framed shelving screens the take-away service area and displays house made produce and pots of micro herbs. To the north, large glass doors open to a terrace with market umbrellas, outdoor seating and the lawn area of Realm Park.

This project was designed in association with Harlan Redgen whilst at Mathieson Architects

Photography by Romello Pereira

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Mathieson Architects. Mathieson Architects is a Sydney-based architectural design studio. Design Director Phillip Mathieson leads an approach to design that is grounded in Modernist principles of authentic, timeless design and planning rigour. Central to this philosophy is a strong sense of scale, form and material, and an emphasis on finely detailed spaces built to outlast changing fashions. The firm has gained a reputation as a leading practice whose work has been widely published both in Australia, and internationally. With significant experience in designing and delivering high-end projects across a range of residential, multi residential, commercial and hotel/hospitality sectors, Phillip is supported by a creative and enthusiastic team of architects and interior designers. Mathieson Architects was awarded at the Australian Institute of Architects ACT Awards 2019 for Residential Architecture – Houses (New) and at the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2013 and 2017 for Best Architecture Single Residence Australia. In 2019 the studio was awarded The Robert Foster Award for Light in Architecture. Mathieson Architects is an A+ Practice Member of the Australian Institute of Architects and is a registered Architectural Practice with the NSW and ACT Board of Architects.