YOUTH LAB 3.0
Aesthetic Medicine Design
Client: Youth Lab
Location: Joondalup, Western Australia
Photography: Timothy Kaye
Media: Dezeen, Design Anthology, Yinjispace
Awards: Dezeen Awards 2022, Australian Interior Design Awards 2023
Youth Lab 3.0 is the brand’s third clinic in as many years and the latest collaboration with Nickolas Gurtler Office. The studio was engaged to evolve the aesthetic language established in its first Youth Lab project and reinterpret it in a new context—creating spaces that read unmistakably “Youth Lab” yet feel wholly original. A shared vocabulary—mixed metals, monolithic forms, plush textures and rich colour—acts as a connective thread rather than a template, adapted to site and brief.
Set within a 1990s commercial shell, the clinic offered a clean slate to calibrate flow, mood and detail. For this iteration, the reference shifts from New York penthouse cues to the glamorous Florentine and Milanese nightclubs of the 1970s—not pastiche, but a contemporary translation of their confidence, shine and ceremony.
Arrival is marked by a monolithic reception desk formed in custom Venetian plaster, Arabescato marble and polished aluminium. Overhead, a custom pendant by Lost Profile Studio—interlocking aged brass and cream glass—introduces a crafted, ceremonial glow.
The waiting space reframes “waiting” as anticipation. A fragmented linear mirror installation recalls Milanese club corridors, while a constellation of aged-brass canister lights nods to Florentine ceilings. A large-scale Dina Broadhurst artwork anchors the room, and a 70s-green silk carpet sets the stage for curvaceous seating in velvet, shearling and woven Belgian cloth. The effect is layered, sensorial and gently energising.
Adjacent to reception, a polished-aluminium product display with recessed LEDs presents clinical skincare with retail precision and restraint. Circulation continues along a softly lit corridor marked by custom wall lights, leading to treatment rooms that revisit the front-of-house palette in a more intimate register. Limewashed walls meet custom joinery in soft olive, with Arabescato marble, polished aluminium and aged brass balancing clinical functionality with warmth and presence.
Materiality carries the narrative: reflective metal and graphic stone meet tactile textiles and hand-applied finishes so light, texture and silhouette do the work of ornament. Light favours glow over glare. Youth Lab 3.0 demonstrates how a coherent brand language can deepen across sites—delivering environments that are immersive and efficient for practice, confidently glamorous, and unmistakably Youth Lab.