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THE ELLINGTON FUNCTION CENTRE

Epicure is one of the catering divisions of the Spotless Group. Epicure provides catering to a multitude of venues around Adelaide CBD and with the loss of their commercial kitchen at Adelaide Oval (due to the Oval’s redevelopment) needed a replacement facility to maintain their service.

Epicure engaged Grieve Gillett Architects to review options for a tenant refit of the previously known Observatory Function Centre in Hackney prior to signing the long term lease.

 

Grieve Gillett Architects undertook a compliance audit of the existing catering facility and prepared options for the extensive refit of the commercial kitchen to meet current SA Health standards. Subsequent to the lease signing, we developed design concepts and documentation in close consultation with cost manager Aquenta to ensure budget compliance but also to maximise value for money.

Grieve Gillett Architects managed select contractor interviews with Epicure to select a works contractor and then documented the works with contractor input to ensure budget compliance. We then worked with the contractor to deliver the works within the tight (and fixed) budget and within a very restricted time frame.

The Ellington GGA refit
PROJECT DETAILS

Client: Epicure

Location: Hackney, SA

Kaurna Country

Completion: 2014

Budget: $1 million

PROJECT TEAM

Paul Gillett

Kym Barwell

"Working with a limited budget and time constraints between our event periods, Grieve Gillett transformed the venue into what is now known as The Ellington - evoking the spirit of the 1920s in a contemporary new setting. The kitchen was also successfully redesigned to increase output and provide service efficiencies without major structural changes.

 

We are thrilled with the end result. Grieve Gillett really met the design brief, and have delivered an elegant, contemporary space which now fits perfectly in EPICURE's portfolio of unique venues."

- Aaron Bond, Regional Operations Manager

EPICURE Adelaide

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Grieve Gillett Architects is an award-winning multidisciplinary architecture, interior design, heritage and urban design practice on Kaurna Land in Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Our work ranges from education and health facilities, public buildings and urban spaces, commercial, hospitality and retail developments and interiors, heritage conservation and adaptive reuse, transport and infrastructure, performing and visual arts venues, and residential projects, including new buildings, alterations & additions, infill and multiple residential projects.

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Adelaide 5000, South Australia,

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