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District Bar in Adelaide, South Australia
11 Mar 2021
District Bar in Adelaide, South Australia
Design: Studio Nine Architects
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide’s first ‘brew pub’. A two-level outdoor bar and live music venue, with Australia?s first fully functioning microbrewery within a Casino, delivered as part of SkyCity Adelaide?s $330 million transformation.

Located within an internal courtyard on Level 1 of the Casino, the District Bar focuses around an industrial and rustic patina, inspired by and celebrating the surrounding mechanical ductwork and existing fabric of the state heritage listed building.
A modular steel structure was fabricated offsite to create a new mezzanine level and roof, using a 250-tonne crane to lift each modular unit, including steel columns, floor and roof modules, as well as a brew house kit, keg room components and over-sized fit out items into the space.

The microbrewery, operated by Pirate Life Brewing is visible across both floors, with surrounding internal spaces also providing views into the feature keg room ? extending the theatre of the beer making process beyond the walls of the brew house. Three, five hundred litre fermenters hold the beer until it?s primed and ready to pour, while the mezzanine level houses utilities such as an electric boiler, refrigeration unit and Reverse Osmosis plant. Pirate ...