Record 01 / 15 · VIC
Bubble Cup
Curves carved into the heart of a food court — timber, stone and light shaping a tenancy that pulls people in.
VIC · Food-court retail- Sector
- Food-court retail
- Location
- Pacific Shopping Centre, Hoppers Crossing
- State
- VIC
- Completion
- On record
The brief
What the job asked for
A food court is the hardest room in a shopping centre to stand out in: every tenancy competes for the same passing glance, under the same centre lighting, against the same wall of signage. Bubble Cup’s site sat in the heart of the Pacific Shopping Centre food court at Hoppers Crossing — visible from every direction, and exposed from every direction too.
The brief asked for a tenancy that would pull people in on shape alone. That meant geometry the neighbouring counters didn’t have, a palette that read as fresh rather than loud, and a counter line that could serve a queue without breaking the form.
The build
From drawing to trading day
The answer was curvature. Timber forms bend the counter line around the tenancy, softening a hard retail environment and giving the kiosk a silhouette that reads from across the court. The curve isn’t applied decoration — it is the service line, set out so staff work inside it and customers gather along it.
A deliberately tight palette keeps the form in charge: warm timber against white tile, a stone benchtop where the work happens, and LED detailing held back for the moments it earns — edges and signage that keep the kiosk glowing after the centre lights dim.
On the record
As built, on the books
The room on the books is an open, fresh-feeling tenancy that holds its own in the centre’s busiest hall — curved timber, white tile, stone and light, built to trade hard and photograph well. It remains one of the records that shows what shopfitting discipline does inside a food court.
Gallery
Bubble Cup — on site
