Trek Bicycle Store Nominated for Idea08 Award
04-11-2008
The Trek Bicycle Store | Rouse Hill was recently nominated for an Idea08 Award, the (inside) magazine Design Excellence Awards. These are prestigous awards within the Australian design and architecture community and it is a great honour for the store to be nominated.
It is also confirmation of the strong design philosophy that was implemented for the store by Rob Harper of rdo. (Rob Design Office). As Rob states in his nomination submission, 'The design philosophy for the bike shop was simple: do more by using less. The aesthetic grew from there. We selected simple, readily available materials that need little treatment; plywood, LVLs, polished concrete, in-situ blockwork and black rubber. We used voids to emphasise solidity. The details on the large scale items hint at craftsmanship and humanity. All offcuts were used on the front façade, a kind of pixelated forest. The space is modest and unembellished, but evokes the honesty and intimacy of cycling.'
The store has been nominated within the Best Commercial Interior category. The winners of the awards will be announced at the IDEA Awards and Gala party on Friday November 14th, and will be published in the November (inside) IDEA Awards Special issue.
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