About

The InterContinental's flagship Middle Eastern dining room on Auckland's waterfront.

Advieh Restaurant

Project Leads

Andre Koolen Kate Crossling

Client

Precinct Properties

Service

Management

Location

Auckland

Sector

Tourism & Hospitality

Status

Completed 2024

Advieh is the signature restaurant on the ground floor of the InterContinental at One Queen Street, the hotel's flagship dining room. Its design draws on New Zealand's volcanic and geothermal landscape, in curved forms, textured coloured glass and a bar of black timber, wrapped around an open kitchen the diners can watch.

RCP managed the fit-out, and the brief kept moving throughout. When COVID forced the hotel to downsize partway through, the lobby and restaurant were cut back so far that Advieh had to be redesigned from scratch on a smaller footprint. A new chef arrived midway with a specialised kitchen to design around, and RCP worked through InterContinental's approval processes and its food and beverage specialists to land a design everyone could sign off.

The 1960s building it sat in added its own problems. The as-built drawings were inaccurate, and because the fit-out was handed over in phases there was no chance for a full site scan at the start, so RCP verified the real conditions before work could proceed.

The programme was compressed, and flooding tightened it further, leaving the restaurant as the last space finished. RCP held the contractor to stricter, trackable programming to bring it in, and ran the furniture and fit-out procurement, working with the chef on the detail down to the plates, glasses and cutlery.

Advieh opened with the hotel and on budget, and has become one of the InterContinental's draws on the waterfront.