Central Park Tower, Perth
The new Central Park Cafe, Hemingway, was designed in conjunction with the Central Park Lobby upgrade. The curved monolithic forms of the main lobby extended to the new cafe counter, with a large boulder-esque sculpted appearance, gently resting in place.
The design team designed a cafe counter to look like a large boulder and were looking for a material that could curve seamlessly in two planes. The material also needed to be robust enough to withstand the busy nature of a cafe while still looking sleek and clean. There was also a great deal of inbuilt coffee making equipment that had to be integrated into the benchtop, and the seamless nature of the Corian® meant the design could future proof the cafe – if that particular tenant decided to change the coffee machinery or even move out in the future, it would be a simple process to fill the cutouts and make good for new equipment or a new tenant.
There was complexity around shaping the Corian® in two planes, and merging two different colours together – Witch Hazel forms the base, and Summit White forms the top.
The design team were warned that using a Corian® with a fairly strong grain while trying to curve it in both directions could have meant that junctions between panels would be more visible, but thankfully the installers and fabricators where able to circumvent this provide very clean and barely perceptible joint lines between panels.
The design team and the client were extremely pleased with the outcome and due to the use of Corian® as a material, none of the original design intent of the café was lost. The counter curves are seamless and elegant – the end result is testament to the dedicated work and skill of the fabricator, the cabinet maker and the builder.
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This island getaway renovation project blends practical high-end materials with sophisticated organic design techniques and the latest technologies to create an elegantly timeless and serene weekend escape for the client. The overall design brief for the project was to creatively transform the existing beach house into a very open and subdued glamorous island retreat that […]
Benson Street
The key to the success of this modern, minimalist kitchen was to split the kitchen island into two equal parts, to allow for good circulation and access. It also created a stunning design statement. The two feature Corian® islands in this kitchen are mirror images of each other. They have a waterfall at one end […]
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Anne Hindley and the team at Hindley & Co Architecture and Interiors used tone-on-tone colour and space layering to reinvigorate this grand double storey heritage house in Balwyn. Anne amplified the great features of the original house and got playful with referencing them in the contemporary rework. The existing arches of the library and the […]
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New Zealand designer Annika Rowson has just unveiled this elegant beauty – a third kitchen in her Rowson Kitchens showroom. Having a showroom that changes every couple of years enables Annika not only to showcase leading edge materials, concepts and functional features in kitchen design, but also to personally challenge herself to apply materials in […]
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Monumental wall covering in translucent lacework of DuPont™ Corian® solid surface turns Brussels hotel into a place of pilgrimage for design lovers When Portuguese designer, architect, artist and top chef Antoine Pinto takes on a new project he gives it 200% of his creativity, as witnessed in the reopening of the Hotel Sofitel Brussels Le Louise, […]
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