Forty Licks

Designed by GSBN Studio, Forty Licks is a subterranean Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of Sydney City with a unique design and application of materials.

The design applies a prosthetic approach to historic buildings that enables radical transformation while preserving heritage fabric.

GSBN’s brief was to design a unique architectural fitout that treated the heritage fabric of the existing building in the lightest possible way.

They designed a prosthetic framework of welded steel mesh with custom clamps that allow the installations removal from the building at any time without any structural damage.

One of the great challenges the GSBN design team faced was to satisfy the number of patrons required as part of the brief.

Their response utilised all areas of the site, resulting in a tiered platform seating arrangement, each connected through the fine interweaving of the rattan installation.

Project Details

Project Size – 240 m²Site Area – 240 m²
Completion Date – 2019
Building Levels – 1

Project Team

Architecture

GSBN Studio

Formed in 2018, GSBN Studio seeks to challenge the traditions of the built environment.

With a shared passion for automotive, naval, and industrial design, as well as two decades of combined experience in architecture, the studio leaves behind the conventional boundaries of the built environment to create a new typology: transformable places.

www.gsbnstudio.com.au

Photography

Alessandro Belgiorno-Nettis

Alessandro is an architect that loves operable design. He has over 6 years of experience with skills in detailed design, research and development, finance, and project management…and photography.

www.gsbnstudio.com.au