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THE ADELAIDE REVIEW OCTOBER 2013

PARK(ING) DAYAdelaide’s city car parks were once again transformed into vibrant public spaces for the annual PARK(ing) Day

AILA AWARDSThe SA Australian Institute of Landscape Architect Awards were held last month

MAGILL ESTATEAcclaimed Melbourne-based interior architect Pascale Gomes-

McNabb renovated the new-look Magill Estate restaurant

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The fourth annual Adelaide

PARK(ing) Day on Friday,

September 20 celebrated the transformation of 31 car parking

spaces by 31 teams with 31 different

interpretations of what public space could

be, encouraging us to use our imagination and

think beyond the standard use of city space.

The annual PARK(ing) Day event continues

to grow in Adelaide and internationally, not

only in terms of the numbers of car park

spaces transformed, but in terms of those who

engage with the parks, and experience their

cities in a different way for a brief moment.

This year’s teams created experiences

for people that were thought-provoking,

entertaining and interactive. From photo booths, art galleries, gardens, outdoor fi tness,

parkour, libraries, lounge rooms, games, soap

boxes and bocce to balloons, plants and comfy

chairs.

With so many unique and creative concepts

the PARK(ing) jurors, including former

Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Charles

Landry and former Integrated Design Commission leader Tim Horton, along with

their fellow jurors, had the tough decision of

awarding the overall winner.

That honour went to the team of Stylecraft

and Walter Brooke with their mix of live

music and breakdancing, drawing the

attention of a multi-generational crowd who

were captivated and transfi xed, something

you don’t often see on Waymouth Street on

a regular Friday afternoon. In addition, for

the third year running, Woods Bagot took out

the People’s Choice Award achieved through

their use of physical and virtual space.

If the reimagining of car park spaces on

PARK(ing) Day is something you loved and

want to see more of, the Adelaide City Council

currently has a Parklet Program that could

see the public benefi ts extend to a 12-month

timeframe.

Janelle Arbon,

PARK(ing) Day Committee

For more information on how you can be involved

visit adelaidecitycouncil.com/parklets

PARK(ING) DAY 2013 The highs, the greening and the comfy chairs

BY JANELLE ARBON

STYLECRAFT/WALTER BROOKE – ‘ROPED IN GREENHOUSE’The installation ‘Roped in Greenhouse’ was the

brainchild of design companies Stylecraft and

Walter Brooke. The Waymouth St space showcased

local talent such as breakdancers and musicians.

Through talking to Emma Dodson from Walter

Brooke and Elise Fimeri and Natasha Ugrinic from

Stylecraft, their PARK(ing) Day belief is that it’s

about the Adelaide cultural and design scene

coming out of the woodwork and expressing

themselves in a more urban context. Their goal

was to provide a platform for artists and talented

individuals to self-promote and to carve up the

pavement, which is normally not a usual occurrence

throughout the day. There was a large, exciting

public interest within this installation, as it was

demographically diverse with the different acts.

Congratulations to Walter Brooke and Stylecraft for winning the 2013

Overall Award

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CBD Gets Creative by raquel GazzOla, rashelle caddles

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If you made it to the CBD on Friday,

September 20, you would have

witnessed something out of the ordinary, PARK(ing) Day. Instead of finding

metered car spaces, you might have seen a

table tennis match, a wishing tree or even

bocce. PARK(ing) Day is an international

annual celebration of turning urban city

car spaces into urban city parks. Adelaide

is one of the most participated PARK(ing)

Day cities in the world along with Paris and

San Francisco.

The installations took on all forms and

shapes from the arts to interactive street

performances, all with the underlying focus

on community and design.

DESIGN INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA – ‘THE WISHING TREE’ The diA created their ‘wishing Tree’ on waymouth

St. The community could stop and embrace their

inner child by creating their own masterpiece with

pop-sticks, strings of wool and other crafty items

at this space. The goal of the diA’s installation

was to increase the creativity of the community

and give people the opportunity to express their

creative spirit.

ENOKI – ‘BOCCHED PARK’interior design company enoki created their

installation ‘bocched Park’ in leigh St. with

this excellent location, enoki created a grassed

laneway for a game of bocce allowing community

involvement. Their aim was to create community

interaction and increase awareness of how

PARK(ing) day changes the atmosphere of the

streets.  

PARKING DAY 2013We wanted to provide a spectacle which would generate conversation and interaction between the performers, the community and the temporarily altered urban fabric.

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The Jury thanks the profession in

the state for the opportunity to

consider such a fi ne body of work

and congratulates all those involved

on the high standard achieved. It was a pleasure

for us to be so excited by what we saw and to

be forced to debate at such a high level. We

were excited by the diverse entries across all

categories and unanimous in our belief that

with the energy, commitment, creativity and

innovation demonstrated here, not only will the

profession continue to develop – it will continue

to lead. We were assessing real quality.

Overall, the jury considers this year’s

submissions comprise a very solid body of work,

not only in terms of planning and design, but

in terms of product, much of which exhibits

high levels of craft in detailing and construction.

We have also been impressed by the expanding

array of innovative project processes, innovations

led by landscape architects in their roles both as

clients and as consulting professionals. With the

ever-expanding range of challenges that typify

the contemporary environment, this bodes well

for the profession’s future.

These innovative processes include programs

to coordinate key stakeholder involvement

and decision-making, trans-disciplinary

interactions and community engagement.

2013 AILA AWARDS

JURY CHAIR’S REPORT 2013 AILA SOUTH AUSTRALIA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

BY CATHERIN BULL

They include innovative and client-targeted

reporting and communication methods,

real-time scenario testing, monitoring,

benchmarking and research.

Best of all, such innovation could be

observed across the project spectrum and from

the inner city through the suburbs and the

urban fringe to the remotest of sites. Planning

and design have been used as they should, as

investigatory methods to defi ne and solve the

many problems that typify our landscapes,

whatever they are and wherever they occur.

Congratulations again to all entrants and

especially the winners in this exceptional

period of development for the profession. The

landscapes and communities of South Australia

are better for your contributions.

Catherin Bull, Jury Chair,

AILA SA Awards 2013

AM FAILA Professor Emeritus,

Landscape Architecture,

University of Melbourne

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2013 AILA AWARDS LIST

1. 2013 South Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture North Terrace Redevelopment, Stage 2 and Stage 3, Taylor Cullity Lethlean (pictured 1)

2. Design in Landscape ArchitectureAward – Meningie Lakefront Habitat Restoration Project, Aspect Studios (The Adelaide Review People’s Choice winner, pictured 2)Award -- Port Noarlunga and Witton Centre, Taylor Cullity LethleanAward – M2 and the Plasso, Swanbury PenglaseAward of Excellence – Adelaide Zoo People Project, HASSELL (pictured 4)

3. Urban Design in Landscape ArchitectureAward – Hindley Street Activation, HASSELLAward -- Bank Street, Taylor Cullity LethleanAward of Excellence – Kingston Foreshore Master Plan and Kingston

Foreshore Bridge, Oxigen (pictured 5)

4. Planning in Landscape ArchitectureAward – City of Marion Walking and Cycling Strategy, OxigenAward of Excellence – Tonsley Urban Design Protocol, Oxige7

5. Land Management in Landscape ArchitectureAward of Excellence – Water Proo� ng the South, City of Onkaparinga and Outerspace Landscape Architects

6. Research and Communications in Landscape ArchitectureAward – Random Art Project, WAX Design (with SPUD) (pictured 6)Award of Excellence – Living Architecture: Where Science Meets Design, Fifth Creek Studio

7. Residential Design in Landscape ArchitectureAward of Excellence – North Adelaide and Adelaide Villa Gardens, Taylor Cullity Lethlean (pictured 3)

8 Future Leaders AwardsAward – Aylwen Dennis, Aspect Studios; Award – Alex Game, Oxigen; and Award – Matt Baida, WAX Design.

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A Light TouchA sense of artistry characterises the highly anticipated renovation of Magill estate restaurant by Pascale Gomes-McNabb, one of the country’s most exciting interior architects.

by Leanne amOdeO

For many of the country’s newest

hospitality fit-outs the emphasis

is on minimal, pared-back design.

The trend is particularly evident

in Adelaide where bars and eateries such as

Udaberri and Nordburger are making a strong

impression. These interiors forego excessive

styling and over-the-top embellishment in

favour of a robust material palette, precise

joinery and an unquestionable attention to

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detail. The end result may look simple but each

design element possesses a complexity that is

intentionally unapparent.

When Penfolds re-opened their Magill

Estate restaurant in late August they too

revealed a new fit-out that was breathtaking

in its simplicity. The much-anticipated

renovation may be minimalist, but the level

of craftsmanship and high quality details

and finishes is anything but ordinary.

Penfolds was smart to call in arguably one

of the country’s top designers for the job,

Pascale Gomes-McNabb. The contracts team

at Schiavello’s South Australian branch was

also engaged as construction managers to

translate the Melbourne-based interior

architect’s vision.

This renovation was always going to be a

challenge because of the building’s ‘glass box’

typology. What Gomes-McNabb had to work

with was essentially an elevated floor, a ceiling

and lots of glass walls. The outside would figure

prominently in the interior design, but this is

not necessarily a bad thing, considering the

winery’s picturesque location and impressive

views. What was important, according to Steve

Lockwood, Schiavello’s State Director, is that

“Penfolds found a synergy between their wine,

their food and the interior design so that it

spoke as one to the market”.

Gomes-McNabb was incredibly respectful of

the building’s existing architecture and her final

design has a light touch. Rationalised insertions

and minimal interruptions characterise the new

fit-out and bespoke detailing gives Magill Estate

restaurant its resounding design expression. The

light fittings are delicate handblown glass, the

joinery a sumptuous mix of copper, brass, timber

and blackened steel and the seating is upholstered

in a range of differently textured fabrics. “It is

exceedingly eclectic,” says Lockwood. “The risk

was that all these unusual shapes, lines and

dimensions wouldn’t work together, but they

do. They all elegantly dovetail into each other so

that it looks like no other offering in Adelaide.”

The design’s most apparent point of

difference is the kitchen’s segregation from

the dining area. Gomes-McNabb has bucked

the current fashion for visible kitchens and

kept this one well and truly hidden behind

glass panelling printed with an aerial view of

the vineyard. The ‘theatre’ has been taken out

of the design equation so that the emphasis is on a fine dining experience. Placing the food

preparation in full view would have created

unnecessary visual clutter and changed the

intended ambience.

The spectacular views already offer so

much to look at and Gomes-McNabb’s design

must be commended for holding its own, even

in harsh daylight. When the sun floods the

interior it’s the individual bespoke elements

that stand out and as soon as the sun goes

down the interior is at its most attractive. The

glass light fittings echo the lights of the city

and their soft glow adds to the restaurant’s

refined ambience. “It’s a different room in the

evening,” says Lockwood. “The design comes

alive and works so well with the building’s

surrounding aspects.”

Gomes-McNabb’s uncompromisingly

bespoke vision lends the restaurant a sense

of artistry that reflects the excellence of Magill

Estate’s food and wine. It is a vibrant synergy

befitting one of Australia’s finest restaurants.

Contact Zane Betterman [email protected]

telephone 08 8112 2300 schiavello.com/penfolds

Penfolds’ showcase restaurant, Magill Estate, reopens and takes South Australian dining to a new level. With a thrilling, contemporary interior created by Pascale Gomes-McNabb, the space reflects a sense of place, and creates a synergy between the interior, wine, food and ambience.

From the beautiful black metal heritage wine cellar wall to the installation of glass sphere ceiling feature lights and locally crafted furniture, Schiavello delivered a refurbishment brimming with bespoke craftsmanship and detail. We are pleased to partner with Penfolds, who shares our passion for uncompromised service and quality.

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