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Design Clarity was approached early 2011 by a residential client offering an exciting opportunity to refurbish his riverside apartment. Located in a grade II listed 19th century grain warehouse on…
Camberwell is the latest in the Laurent family to undergo a full transformation and the design represents the legacy behind the brand with a focus on quality and craftsmanship. The location east of the city has a longstanding, loyal and discerning customer base who are now enjoying a convivial, crisp, refreshed interior ambience. Customer profiling...
Design Clarity were invited to upgrade an existing shopping centre, creating an exceptional family-friendly lifestyle experience to appeal to young and affluent families with strong community connections. A unique dining environment was produced, offering a comfortable ambience and a point of difference with visual interest, innovative technology and screening between spaces. The selection of materials,...
With Design Clarity’s specialist food retail expertise we were contracted to critique and give design advice on the Craigieburn LendLease project launched Nov 2013 – with a specific focus on the various food retail zones throughout the development. We offered one director level designer to the core RDM team for the duration of a year...
Design Clarity was contracted by QIC to act as external retail design managers for their latest Robina Town Centre development on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Design Clarity’s RDM role for QIC involved reviewing all food retail tenancies across the various mall zones at Robina – including kiosks, key café sites, the fresh food...
For 5 years, Design Clarity was responsible for design reviews, approvals and negotiations with key retailers, designers and contractors within the following Westfield centres: Merry Hill, Royal Victoria Place, Castlecourt Belfast, Guildford, and Derby. The role involved regular weekly site visits, design review meetings and daily contact with individual retailers, the leasing team and centre...
Design Clarity worked closely with the retail development team within Al Futtaim Group in Egypt to fulfil this unique brief for the Cairo Festival City mall. The developers were decisive about appointing a global retail design agency and not relying solely on local contributors, to truly reflect the global aspirations for the centre, and to...
Our relationship with Emaar Group has opened an avenue of opportunity within the world-class Dubai Mall – to create a selection of bespoke and premium mall retailing kiosk designs. The brief asked for an inherently versatile and agile design approach suitable to any potential type of mall retailer. An experimental approach to temporary and permanent...
Design Clarity worked on the early concept designs for Heinemann – the company subsequently winning the rights to develop Sydney’s largest duty free store in departures at Sydney Airport’s T1 International terminal. Our schematic concept work evolved around the essence of Sydney and the connection of Sydney’s unique identity with the several retail category destination...
As part of the refurbishment plan for Toombul, entry points were reassessed and extra corridor and footprint was dedicated to the shopper amenities, requiring a full redesign and total upgrade, with the addition of a new concept parents room. A selection of concept directions were proposed, and the ‘International Traveller’ targeted as a stakeholder favourite,...
Design Clarity worked intensively with Bankwest for 6 years. Commencing with a foward-thinking retail banking concept in 2007 with 8 test pilot sites, followed by an East Australian fast-track rollout of 49 sites from 120sqm up to 500sqm. We also coordinated the management of landlord, certification and council approvals, site audits and tender management and...
Design Clarity worked with Mirvac on the early stages of the Toombul Shopping Centre redevelopment direction. In under 3 weeks we presented a Fresh Food precinct schematic concept upgrade to allow leasing to key tenants to progress. The upgrade identified quick wins that provided maximum uplift for the Fresh Food mall anchored by Coles. The...
Our design work on the mall refurbishment work at Toombul commenced with mood board and conceptual schematics of the new travelator installed from the upper level carpark into the general fashion and specialty ramped mall outside Kmart. Concepts for treatment of the mall common areas, ceilings, bulkheads, walls, doors, bulkheads, flooring, pause points with charging...
Design Clarity was approached early 2011 by a residential client offering an exciting opportunity to refurbish his riverside apartment. Located in a grade II listed 19th century grain warehouse on…
Central Kitchen is the heart of Sydney’s new Retail destination – Central at Central Park. 4000sqm and offering seating for 700, the Level 2 dining zone of the Frasers Property and Sekisui House development on Broadway, Sydney was designed to embrace the global village nature of the Living Mall. Central Kitchen reinvents the food court...
The concept behind Design Clarity’s design for the upgraded Oxford Village Shopping centre focuses on the success of laneway precincts around Australia. This small inner-urban centre was built in 1969 and underwent a part renovation in 2005. Design Clarity was engaged as Principle Design Architect on the project to develop the previously untouched common areas,...
A two level dynamic retail space in a prime Sydney CBD location. Optus is shifting focus, targeting digital natives and heightening brand appeal by being entertaining, responsive, engaging and agile. Our retail design strategy offers more entertainment, more content, less hardware. Design Clarity developed a set of insights to drive the design based on four...
Design Clarity was engaged by Industry Super Property Trust (ISPT) one of the leaders in Australian property market, to oversee the Retail Design approval process for ISPT Retail Portfolio. This RDM role covered 18 centres nationally and up to 800 individual tenancies. ISPT centres include the prestigious heritage listed GPO in Melbourne CBD and the...
Bankwest requested a new innovative concept stemming from our original East Coast model. This step-change in the design evolution had to ensure Bankwest stays true to their vision “to be the best value, most innovative and approachable bank in Australia…” Our design team worked closely with CBA Group Property to push the Bankwest brand even...
This concept celebrates the authenticity of raw materials. Raw expanded metal mesh panels were applied to the concrete shop front to create a point of difference while keeping costs down. The interior showcases painted exposed ceiling services and perforated timber suspended ceiling rafts, illuminated folded aluminium shoe displays, concrete rendered point of sale with illuminated...
The sophisticated charm of 1950s Cuba has been recreated with an inspiring interior fit out of a double story heritage listed building on Sydney’s York Street. The 650sqm bar and restaurant has been transformed through an innovative and highly researched interior design process. Timber panelled ceilings, antique ceiling fans and unique rum barrel displays are...