Black Star Pastry by Studio MKZ

Responding to a brief for a “hole in the wall,” Studio MKZ has taken a minimalist approach in its design for Black Star Pastry at The Galeries shopping centre in the heart of Sydney. A stark white base palette allows architectural form to take centre stage, with a sculptural frontispiece – in the same white as the mosaic tiles lining the back-of-house spaces – folding open like the page of a book, creating the hole-in-the-wall effect. This elegant, folded form is echoed in the bench seating and signage in front of the shop, providing a sense of connection and common identity. Black Star Pastry, established in Sydney in 2008, is the creator of the Strawberry Watermelon Cake, which the New York Times called “the world’s most Instagrammed cake.” The Galeries hole in the wall is the patisserie’s fifth outlet.

Photography — Seung Rok Lee

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