Tullamarine
For this contemporary office refurbishment in the outer Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine, we stripped back the existing interiors and installed new, high performance windows to create a new front façade. The space features a simple, sleek, and modern composition by Layan Design Group, with the central point being an organic communal table, built in white concrete.
Design
Layan Design Group
Photography
Platform Eight
Seddon
Common Galaxia was the first of three projects built by Fido Projects in close collaboration with owners Luke Mutton & Kylie Mackinlay. A café & restaurant fitout in a Small Giants’ development in the hip inner western suburb of Seddon built over 6 weeks, there was a strong focus on coffee & food & the beauty of raw concrete & brickwork, US Oak joinery & wall cladding, acoustic ply ceilings, with CPR Plumbing Solutions providing bespoke copper pipework. Lighting & furniture was delivered by Luke & Kylie’s other close collaborator, Justin Lamont of LifeSpaceJourney. Luke & Kylie have since moved onto bigger & better ventures at Sun Moth Canteen & Bar in Niagara Lane in the city.
Photography
Ari Hatzis.
Emporium, CBD
Our relationship with Studio Wonder and Australian designer Alice McCall led to our third consecutive project together—this time for a store inside Melbourne retail destination, Emporium. Responding to the evolution of the Alice McCall brand over the years, the space is graphic and minimal in nature, with our works involving custom brass racking, marble floors and marble point of sale, mirrored walls, and a frameless glass and ornate brass shop front.
Design
Design of Wonder
Photography
Tom Blachford
GPO Melbourne
Fido was engaged to build the Skin & Threads flagship store on High Street Armadale, designed by Peter Forsyth, & then soon after built the second store at Melbourne’s iconic GPO building designed by Kart projects. Both stores were built over a 4 week program using solid Tasmanian Oak & American Oak joinery, lighting by Light Project, custom racking, local Bluestone tiling & required alterations to existing services. Sadly the GPO building was re tenanted to H&M soon after.
Photography
Ari Hatzis.
Melbourne University
Designed by Nicola Dovey from Drawing Room Architecture, Fido completed the fit out of the client’s first food venue at Melbourne University over 4 weeks. Works included installing extraction & kitchen equipment, tiling & custom made joinery, furniture, lighting, signage & exceptional copper plumbing work by CPR Plumbing.
Architecture
Drawing Room Architecture.
QV Melbourne
Designed by Foolscap Studio, the fit out of Vanishing Elephant flagship store over 4 weeks included new LED lighting by Masson Lighting, custom racking system, fitting rooms & fabric, suspended fabric ceiling, recycled hardwood flooring, Spotted Gum joinery, new timber clad façade & alterations to existing services.
Designed
Foolscap Studio.
Photography
Ari Hatzis.
St Kilda Road Melbourne
Fit out of the new office space within the Clemenger building incorporated new carpet, custom suspended awnings, Birch ply work stations, meeting tables on steel frames, custom made upholstered ottomans & banquette seating, Birch ply whiteboards, custom lighting by Mance Lighting & alterations to existing services.
Melbourne
Formerly the Russell Street Telephone Exchange Post office built in 1954, then converted into boutique apartments in 1999 by Fender Katsalidis, Fido recently completed the fit out of the existing lobby, designed by Minifie van Schaik Architects. Works incorporated the strip out of existing fixtures and fittings not consistent with the original 1930’s Italian Modernist architecture, removing plasterboard from original brickwork, hard plastering and re painting walls and ceilings, new lighting by Blue Bottle, refurbishing original stone floor and walls, custom freestanding furniture, letterboxes & artwork by Fiona Abicare & her exceptional team of artisans.
Architecture
Minifie van Schaik Architects.
Photography
Martina Gemmola.
Ivanhoe
Designed by Mills Gorman Architects, Fido completed its second store for the clients over 4 weeks. Works included demolishing the existing fit out & brick walls, stripping back walls to expose original brickwork, installing an internal light well with skylights, Terrazzo tiling, recycled timber cladding, upholstered leather seating, installing new air conditioning, restoring the existing Travertine stone flooring, carpet, American Oak point of sale, display joinery, custom racking system, new lighting by Ambience Lighting & repainting the external façade.
Architecture
Mills Gorman Architects.
Photography
Ari Hatzis.
Chapel Street, Prahran
Designed by Design of Wonder, the fit out of the alice McCall’s flagship store on Chapel Street was completed over 5 weeks. Works involved building fitting rooms, tiling the entire shop floor, the point of sale unit, custom racking, mirrored walls, lighting by Light Project, repainting the external facade & alterations to the existing mechanical system.
Designed
Design of Wonder.
Photography
Ari Hatzis.
