Kabi Kabi people
Queensland
Brisbane
Landing Bakery uses a working hospitality venue to test how circular and renewable design performs under real commercial conditions. Located in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Scarborough, the front-of-house fit out was designed and fabricated by Five Mile Radius with Matthew Reynolds, using local supply chains, active salvage streams and renewable materials identified before design commenced.Â
The project features sand-cast concrete formed with sand sourced across the bay, Queensland-grown hoop pine, recycled steel and a repurposed spinnaker sail, with all furniture fabricated locally from reclaimed and renewable materials. An outdoor gathering space extends the fit-out into the street, remaining usable outside trading hours. Project-specific carbon accounting shows an 84 percent reduction in embodied carbon compared to a typical hospitality fit-out.
Landing Bakery is an exemplary project that places circularity and renewability at the core of its conceptual framework. Through rigorous material sourcing and innovative fabrication, the project achieves outstanding sustainability outcomes without compromising function or experience. Its strong connection to local context and community establishes it as a neighbourhood anchor, while its integration of design and making demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. This is a compelling model for low-carbon, high-impact interior architecture with public benefit.Â
Commendation for Interior Architecture
Landing Bakery is resourceful collaboration between practices with a conceptual framework grounded in practicality. The design process of the bakery positions circularity and renewability at the core of the commonly intensive and often wasteful environment of commercial design and fit-out. The interiors are restrained yet eclectic and reflect the sourcing of materials and process of production. There is local referencing of industry and culture in the fit-out. The result is an appreciable social harbour within the community and a demonstration model of the possibilities of sustainable design.
Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture
Landing Bakery is an exemplary proposition of a sustainable design and build approach within the commonly intensive and often wasteful environment of commercial tenancy fitout. Landing Bakery’s interiors and exterior appear restrained and sparse with each introduced element being carefully considered and vetted with regard to its material origins, design and manufacture, and future use. The existing raw space has been accepted and incorporated as a workable condition to be adapted rather than recloaked or refashioned. Within the strict commercial timeframes typically set aside for design and fit out alone, the architects have undertaken detailed research into the immediate locality and local industry and manufacture base to extrapolate sustainable design and production opportunities latent within the place itself.
To this they have added previous learnings of waste and bi-product materials to establish a rigorously specific palette. The resulting fitout is an appreciable social harbour within the community. While, as a collective, architects are tasked with engaging in the crafting of sustainable outcomes within their project, these are often carried out within existing systems or the framework of compliance. Those who innovate and expand awareness of sustainable design, as demonstrated at Landing Bakery, deserve acknowledgement and applause.
Commendation for Interior Architecture
Landing Bakery is an exemplary project that places circularity and renewability at the core of its conceptual framework. Through rigorous material sourcing and innovative fabrication, the project achieves outstanding sustainability outcomes without compromising function or experience. Its strong connection to local context and community establishes it as a neighbourhood anchor, while its integration of design and making demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. This is a compelling model for low-carbon, high-impact interior architecture with public benefit.Â
Sustainability shortlist
Commendation for Interior Architecture
Landing Bakery is resourceful collaboration between practices with a conceptual framework grounded in practicality. The design process of the bakery positions circularity and renewability at the core of the commonly intensive and often wasteful environment of commercial design and fit-out. The interiors are restrained yet eclectic and reflect the sourcing of materials and process of production. There is local referencing of industry and culture in the fit-out. The result is an appreciable social harbour within the community and a demonstration model of the possibilities of sustainable design.
Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture
Landing Bakery is an exemplary proposition of a sustainable design and build approach within the commonly intensive and often wasteful environment of commercial tenancy fitout. Landing Bakery’s interiors and exterior appear restrained and sparse with each introduced element being carefully considered and vetted with regard to its material origins, design and manufacture, and future use. The existing raw space has been accepted and incorporated as a workable condition to be adapted rather than recloaked or refashioned. Within the strict commercial timeframes typically set aside for design and fit out alone, the architects have undertaken detailed research into the immediate locality and local industry and manufacture base to extrapolate sustainable design and production opportunities latent within the place itself.
To this they have added previous learnings of waste and bi-product materials to establish a rigorously specific palette. The resulting fitout is an appreciable social harbour within the community. While, as a collective, architects are tasked with engaging in the crafting of sustainable outcomes within their project, these are often carried out within existing systems or the framework of compliance. Those who innovate and expand awareness of sustainable design, as demonstrated at Landing Bakery, deserve acknowledgement and applause.
We came to the project looking for a high quality design outcome that would work hard for the way the bakery operates. What we gained through the process was a much deeper understanding of how local and reused materials could be used without compromising on aesthetics, durability or function. The fit-out is practical, well resolved and closely aligned with our values, and our customers have responded positively to the space. We also appreciate how the project helps educate customers about where materials come from, without making sustainability feel heavy-handed.