Some five years back this was a showcase microbrewery for Fosters with the stainless steel devices being the centre piece of the hotel. That is now all gone and drinkers are left with an impressive 70 metre island bar in a room cleverly panelled in wood.
The Middle Park Hotel has been designed around the ideas of old “Travellers Hotels”. A place where you have a small self-contained suite upstairs and the environment on the ground floor can offer spaces for different moods and situations. A guests lounge off the reception is a place to meet up with friends or do some quiet work before a meeting.
The bar and dining room references the institutions that were built with the excitement of travel in mind. For the regular visitor, the Hotel will become the home away from home.
“In some ways I was trying to see how a modern sport bar could mix with my client’s memorabelia collection and his desire to reinvent the MCG long room, the Melbourne travellors Club and the MCC bull ring bar,” explained Mark Healy, director of Six Degrees. “Spacially it is driven by the Six Degrees approach to inclusive hospitality environments with abstracted elements of historical sporting/club/hunting/establishment layered over it.”