Recently completing a renovation and refurbishment has seen Melbourne’s Prahran Hotel add another reason for its acclaim, the upstairs Upton Bar.
November 26th, 2015
The Uptown Bar merges bold and glamorous architectural design with lush hanging greenery and warm pendant lighting. This greenery helps the bar to marry with the already successful and award winning Garden Bar below.
Designed by Techne Architects, the most striking aspect of The Upton Bar is, suitably enough, the bar itself. Built of copper tubes stacked atop one another, the bar references the iconic pipes below in the Garden Bar, further tying the bar to the greater hotel itself. Concrete walls and copper juxtapose the monochrome geometric tiles and suspended tube planters throughout. These planters, draped with lush greenery, are inspired by a tropical canopy and are equal parts cozy and expansive, allowing the Upton Bar to recall the outdoors without being subject to the elements.
While the space does blue this line between indoors and out, there is present an outdoors space proper; an open-air courtyard housed by exposed brick walls. This banquette seating recalls a wooden park bench surrounded by a generous mass of fresh plants.
With a capacity of up to 180 guests, The Upton Bar is design primarily for cocktail weddings, corporate parties and related private events.
Prahan Hotel
prahranhotel.com
INDESIGN is on instagram
Follow @indesignlive
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
In the last instalment of our three-part performance seating series, Alex Bain from Architectus explains why sitting well shouldn’t feel like sitting at all and explores an unexpected success metric of the hybrid workplace: the grounding power of emotional support.
The Geelong College’s Sport and Wellbeing Centre ‘Belerren’ designed by Wardle is designed around bringing in natural light. But Shade Factor’s job was to help modulate and precisely control it for the most important competitive moments.
Blending versatile cooking with smart performance, Bosch AccentLine appliances bring a quieter sense of order and simplicity to the modern kitchen.
Stepping into Intuit’s Sydney workplace certainly doesn’t feel like walking into an office. Why? In this film, we discover that, when joy takes precedence as a design driver, even a high-performing commercial CBD headquarters can feel like an intuitive wonderland that invites employees to choose their own adventure.
Michael Banney likes to talk and write architecture into existence. It’s an “inclusive habit” that allows him to step outside the architect’s mindset, but still inhabit the role. He talks to Indesign about what makes m3architecture so idiosyncratic.
Giorgio Armani brings his new eyewear collection to the streets in a clever campaign incorporating fashion, photography and social media.
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
In this interview, Michael Leeton reflects on his philosophy of placemaking, connection to landscape and the importance of designing homes that balance intimacy with scale, using his award-winning project House on a Hill as a central reference point.
Tamara Veltre, director at Breathe, reflects on the studio’s collaboration with Haymes Paint — a deliberately reduced, architect-designed palette that reframes colour as part of architecture, not an afterthought.