High honour: Cannabis dispensary, luxury bathhouse nominated for design awards
Communal bathing space The Bathhouse opened on Brisbane's northside last year with an ambitious tagline.
Concealed in the Albion Fine Trades precinct, a once-industrial suburban pocket, it not only promised a relaxing escape from the pace of the city, but 'one of the world's most luxurious wellness experiences'.
Michael Hogg and Greg Lamb, the founders of architectural design practice Hogg & Lamb, were tasked with realising the bathhouse's luxury fitout.
While there was thought given to the growing market – The Bathhouse arrived on the back of a bathhouse boom across south-east Queensland – maximising the site itself was their priority.
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'We tried to build something volumetric from the space,' Lamb explains.
'We let that inform what the materials and lighting would be, and that's how we built the plan.'
Australian bathhouses borrow from cultures with established communal bathing traditions – Turkish hammams, Japanese onsens and Finnish saunas – and are executed to varying degrees of socialisation, relaxation and recovery.
The Bathhouse leans into European-style, with silver travertine and textured surfaces throughout. These elements are complemented by low lighting, glowing pools and a central fireplace, which create the cave-like atmosphere.
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