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2016 Gallery

Winner: Best Bar Design

Sans-Arc Studio for Pink Moon Saloon

South Australia

Photography: David Sievers

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.

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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.

Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
Photography: David Sievers
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