2016 Gallery
Winner: Best Bar Design
Sans-Arc Studio for Pink Moon Saloon
South Australia
In a former bin alley and sandwiched between two office buildings on one of Adelaide's vibrant laneways is the Pink Moon Saloon. The venue tells a narrative of campfire cooking with a childlike nostalgia for the outdoors. Designed and built in traditional 'hut' style, it reflects its context and place.
Jury Citation
Pink Moon Saloon is a diminutive venue that occupies a former rubbish bin alley sandwiched between two office buildings in a laneway in central Adelaide. The project is simultaneously audaciously ambitious and modest. It successfully manages to make something from nothing a forgotten space infused with a feeling of joy that the jury found particularly contagious.
While the design undoubtedly pursues a sense of genuine fun, it also taps into that deep Australian memory of long-forgotten cubby houses and sheds. It is here, within this archetypal connotation, where joyful celebration comes together. Pink Moon Saloon has been executed with a razor-sharp eye on detail and the overall design, while being immediately familiar in some uncanny way, manages to both shock and surprise us all in a good way.
Capping off all of this, the project is 100 percent sustainable the space it occupies can be returned to its former function at any point in the future, and the Saloon relocated to meet a different need. The end result is a bar that fully embraces its actual time and place, which is 2016, and a newly confident Adelaide, respectively.
