Halfmoon General is a Sunshine Coast landmark. Established in 1937, the site has served the community as general store, post office, steamship stop, auto shop, and community hub – a primary function that appears to have preceded the store and which it retains to this day.

PLACE was tasked with revitalizing the aging structures. Through a delicate progression of design, community outreach, and construction, the store moved from one building to the other, and back, while the two buildings were entirely replaced. Preserved original details, materials, massing and colors maintain continuity between old and renovated/ reconstructed original buildings. Modern interventions are expressed with a different set of details where spaces are new.

The result is a pair of new buildings that hold the lifeline of the store intact, with no loss of community connection and no days closed from start to finish.