Ibis Styles Sydney Central

"Light as a brush on the canvas of the architecture, always and forever". Sydney meets Tokyo bar, designing with layers of lighting. The brief from the Client was to make sure the reception lobby, new bar area and restaurant would attract not only the guests of the Hotel but also occasional visitors. The central lighting sculpture, made out of 250 lighting rods, of four different heigths, recreates a weave effect working also as way finiding: on the right the hotel reception, on the left the entry to the MEE SO bar, which wraps around a curve bar island with bench top and back wall lit to enhance the colour of the bottles and the drinks. For the MEE SO bar, Tokyo meets the movie Shining, with the backlit bench top and backlit bar wall. The use of colours, changing over the day from warm white to a combination of two different colours for each night brings that futuristic mood that makes this space quite unique in Sydney at night. The restaurant, active more over breakfast and lunch has an approach that links to the Asian infusion with a twist on pastels colour and the lighting here is minimal to provide calm and that cozy feeling of sharing a table with someone you care.