Landing Bakery

Designed and fabricated by Five Mile Radius in collaboration with Matthew Reynolds, the project was awarded the 2026 Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture and demonstrates how an unconventional material palette can create a distinctive and commercially successful hospitality venue.

These materials became design inputs, shaping the character, detailing and fabrication of the space.

The approach mirrored the bakery's own emphasis on local food sourcing and quality, creating an interior where provenance is embedded in the experience of the venue.

Scarborough's bayside setting is expressed through the material palette without relying on obvious coastal references.

Queensland-grown hoop pine brings warmth to the joinery and furniture, recycled steel fire pipe forms furniture frames, and a decommissioned A2 spinnaker sail was repurposed as a curtain.

Every piece of furniture was designed specifically for the venue and fabricated from locally sourced, reclaimed or renewable materials, with no commercial or imported furniture specified.

The bakery extends into the street through an outdoor gathering space of recycled hardwood tables, galvanized steel and recycled concrete.

Behind the material richness is a rigorously measured environmental outcome. Of the 1.7 tonnes of material used within the front-of-house scope, 67% was recycled, 31% came from local renewable resources, and only 2% was new material from other sources.

Project-specific embodied carbon accounting found an 84% reduction in embodied carbon against a typical fit-out baseline.

Landing Bakery demonstrates how circular design can create identity, warmth and a strong sense of place within an everyday commercial interior.

The result is a bakery that is materially distinctive, commercially practical and deeply connected to where it is.

"Landing Bakery is an exemplary proposition of a sustainable design and build approach within the commonly intensive and often wasteful environment of commercial tenancy fit-out.

Landing Bakery's interiors and exterior appear restrained and sparse, with each introduced element being carefully considered and vetted with regard to its material origins, design and manufacture, and future use.

Within the strict commercial time frames typically set aside for design and fit-out alone, the architects have undertaken detailed research into the immediate locality and local industry and manufacturing base to extrapolate sustainable design and production opportunities latent within the place itself.

While, as a collective, architects are tasked with engaging in the crafting of sustainable outcomes within their project, these are often carried out within existing systems or the framework of compliance.