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Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones
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Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones
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Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones
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Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones
Levantine culture comes alive inside Sydney haunt Babylon – a rooftop bar and restaurant with swooping arches and labyrinthine dining rooms inspired by a lost ancient city.
Aussie practice Hogg and Lamb and interior stylists Stewart + Highfield collaborated on the sprawling Sydney restaurant, which is set with hanging gardens, arcades and colonnades. The architects used a traditional Middle-Eastern bazaar as their starting point, with patrons drawn to ‘discover’ the eatery’s various settings across multiple visits.
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Travertine plinths and arches connect Babylon’s rooms, which are furnished with velvet-upholstered dining chairs and marble-topped tables. Intimate but more informal booths are set into arched nooks in the walls – a motif mirrored by latticed ceiling arches and shimmering ceiling hangings. And in keeping with its namesake, hanging plants dot the restrained space and will evolve over time.
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Head Chef Arman Uz is serving up a Levantine menu of dishes including Ali Nazki kebab with eggplant, yoghurt and burnt butter; and Hunkar Begendi with slow-cooked wagyu, smoked eggplant puree and mushroom.
Level 7, Westfield, Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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