Olive Restaurant and Café
Newmarket Auckland New Zealand
Outdoor dining under the trees lining Nuffield Street
The brief for this project was to create a European-style daytime café, but one that could easily transform into a relaxed restaurant in the evenings. WMZ Interior created a spatial quality within the old saw-tooth sheds that reflected the brief, Podium spaces broke up the busy café area allowing the customer to escape into the furnishes recesses with built-in bench seating. A huge ‘shug’ window at the front enables the space to flow out into the streetscape
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A low wall divides the dining area into intimate alcoves |