Forty Licks is a subterranean Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of Sydney City with a unique design and application of materials. The design applies a prosthetic approach to historic buildings that enables radical transformation while preserving heritage fabric. The brief was to design a unique architectural fitout that treated the heritage fabric of the existing building in the lightest possible way.

We designed a prosthetic framework of welded steel mesh with custom clamps that allow the installations removal from the building at any time without any structural damage.

▼透过藤条望向吧台，view to the bar through the rattans © Alessandro Belgiorno-Nettis