Piccadilly, 340 Queen Street | Blight Rayner Architecture Pty Ltd

Piccadilly at 340 Queen street is a small office building with a basement restaurant designed by JAR Architects. The interior design work by Blight Rayner focuses on the atrium foyer, a three storey high space that acts as threshold to the office levels and enables glass lift access to the restaurant and offices. The design ethos is one of restraint, stripping layers of change back to original surfaces and complementing them with industrial aesthetic. This relatively spartan approach set the scene for two artist works – one by Kenji Uranishi inhabiting a ‘showcase’ (abstracting the original Piccadilly merchandise showcase) and one a suspended light work by Alexander Lotersztain. The works resonate with each other in thematic content. The office floors are left ‘cold shell’ for tenants to retain original surfaces including murals still visible. The atrium foyer is an inspiring space rich with meaning associated with the building’s history.