Royal Nut Company

The Royal Nut Company is a long-running, family-owned and run business located at Brunswick in Melbourne.

They’ve been selling wholesale nuts to Brunswick locals for 30 years or more, offering a unique retail experience right at the source of production.

The Royal Nut Company is implementing a sustainable business model.

Initial steps include reducing their plastic packaging and buying and sourcing home grown local nuts instead of cheaper imported product.

They’ve been working with local beekeepers and produce their own nut butters in glass packaging.

Their warehouse was sold to make way for apartments so Breathe Architecture helped them move into to their new factory – a site that has been vacant for a number of years.

Celebrating the site’s industrial history, the existing character of the warehouse was retained – exposed roof trusses, high-level steel windows, existing brickwork, and concrete floors.

The existing brick warehouse was painted gold, establishing the company’s presence within the industrial area.

Combined with oversized super-graphic elements borrowed from former decades, the facade is now both iconic and memorable, resonating with the ‘royal’ character of the brand.

Internally, a whitewashed material palette was adopted alongside the gold motif that appears throughout, placing emphasis on the Royal Nut brand and the products themselves.

Project Details

Project Size – 2,325 m2
Completion Date – 2018
Building Levels – 1

Project Team

Architecture and Interior Design

Breathe Architecture

Breathe Architecture is a Melbourne based studio, designing world class architecture with an enduring and meaningful impact on housing affordability, accessibility and sustainability.

www.breathe.com.au

Photography

Tom Ross

Tom Ross is an Australian architectural and editorial photographer.

www.tomross.xyz