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Le Cordon Bleu - Contract documentation project (2001)
International cooking school, Le Cordon Bleu', combining commercial restaurant and bar facilities to be sited in Adelaide, South Australia. This project asked for a comprehensive design, with a high degree of resolution, and worked through to a contract documentation stage (hand drafted). A restrictive CBD site was selected, adding to the challenge of resolving and incorporating a multi use building, combining a professional cooking school, on site accommodation and commercial facilities. Concrete structure was selected, with the feature of the facade highlighted through thin twisting copper strips, screening the glass encased restaurant and bar facilities from the outside, delivering an intimate, human scale. The feature internal element is a spiralling ramp servicing the cooking school facilities, offering a view through ceiling windows into the commercial kitchen below. This was a group project in conjunction with Brett Julian and Claire Watkins.

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