The Architect + The Designer
LU & LU
Lucy Moroney + Lucinda Dryden
OUR PRACTICE
We design both experiences and environments, offering a unique combination of services by connecting creative fields. Working within the unique intersection between architecture, visual design and art, we weave together the stories of people and places, crafting both enduring and transient spaces.
Credits:
Bumpers Oast House with acme
acme 10th Birthday
Songs of the Greenway installation and performance
Florattica Rooftop Hilton Bar with acme
WHAT WE DO
Installations
Architecture
Visual Design
Set Design
Floristry
Activations
Sculpture
Styling
Material Design
Workshops
SELECTED CLIENTS, COLLABORATORS + COMMISSIONSInner West Council, Sydney
Melbourne School of Design
Architectural Association, London
Saudi Design Week
British Council
Credits:
House of Hairs
Bumpers Oast House with acme
Three Williams Cafe
The ABC’s Tonightly with Tom Ballard
PAST PROJECTS
Songs of the Greenway
An installation, public programme and live music performance, as artists in residence, for Sydney’s Inner West Council festival EDGE Greenway.
Installation, Public Programme
2023
The Laboratory Gardens
Designing and running a brief for a winter intensive for Project Toria, a partnership between Melbourne University and London’s Architectural Association Visiting School.
Research, Workshops
2022-23
Wild Urbanism with Maccreanor Lavington Urban Studio
A 155 hectares urban regeneration in Manchester, nestled in the post-industrial Irk Valley. Providing Manchester’s first major Green infrastructure— comprising of a new City River Park, green spaces, green links and public realm—reconnecting Manchester to its lost rivers and landscape.
Urban Design, Placemaking
2022
Florattica, Rooftop Hilton Bar with acme
With views across the City of London, the interior concept drew inspiration from East London’s vibrant textile history, using a rich and dark palette. Lucy assisted on the material detail design and specification in the lead up to construction, finding affordable luxury solutions.
A travelling pavilion and public programme for Saudi Design Week, commissioned by the British Council, with London based collective Eidectic Space and Migrant's Bureau.
Installation, Public Programme
2019
The ABC’s Tonightly with Tom Ballard
Tonightly was a daily comedy show on The ABC from 2017-18. Lucinda designed a series of sets and props, including an apocalyptic warehouse and an academic’s office.
Set Design, Styling
2019
Mailer McGuire Kombucha
Lucinda was engaged to design the branding and packaging of Mailer McGuire, an Australian tea-based Kombucha conceived during a cycling trip along the North American west coast. (AGDA Finalist: Packaging, 2018).
Branding, Packaging
2018
2021
Architecture, Material Design
House of Hairs
One New Change Stair with acme
A retrofit sculptural stair in Jean Nouvel’s One New Change, across from London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. The material challenge was to achieve a seamless mirror fog finish that fades to transparent, on a curved glass balustrade.
Material Design
2015
Credits:
Toria 505 Exhibition with United Make
Mailer McGuire Kombucha
The Laboratory Gardens
Songs of the Greenway installation