Bennelong Restaurant

Name Bennelong Restaurant
Client The Fink Group
Country Gadigal
Location Sydney, NSW
Year 2015

The three terraces of the Bennelong Restaurant sit inside the southern two shells of the iconic Sydney Opera House, each level offering a different dining experience and view of Circular Quay.

Bennelong is named after the site of the Sydney Opera House, where the famous landowner and negotiator Woollarawarre Bennelong lived on Bennelong Point.

The new terraced levels of the restaurant continue the flow of the Opera House’s outside steps, while the layered felt linings echo the striation of the famous podium.

Acting as giant acoustic absorbers, the forms are trimmed with aged brass, to acknowledge the original brass used throughout the Sydney Opera House.

Awards

2016 Interior Architecture Award, AIA NSW Awards: Bennelong.
2016 Shortlisted; Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Australia & Pacific Restaurant: Bennelong.
2015 Best New Restaurant, SMH Good Food Awards, Bennelong Restaurant.

Team

Tim Greer, Belinda Pajkovic, Alison Osborne.

Consultants

ARUP, Blackett Maguire + Goldsmith, Cardno Hard & Forester, Jones Nicholson Consulting Engineers, Sesame Access Systems, Platinum Commercial Kitchens, Accessibility Solutions (NSW) Pty Ltd, Saatchi & Saatchi, Tilt Industrial Design.

Artist

Tom Dixon.

Photographer

Brett Stevens.

Previous Project:
Australian War Memorial, Wellington

Next Project:
The Old Clare Hotel

Bennelong Restaurant

Bennelong is named after the site of the Sydney Opera House, where the famous landowner and negotiator Woollarawarre Bennelong lived on Bennelong Point.

The new terraced levels of the restaurant continue the flow of the Opera House’s outside steps, while the layered felt linings echo the striation of the famous podium.

Acting as giant acoustic absorbers, the forms are trimmed with aged brass, to acknowledge the original brass used throughout the Sydney Opera House.

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TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Always was, always will be.

TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Always was, always will be.