#COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
Local in Thessaloniki
Karalasos Operaday Architects’ second intervention in this restaurant-café uses dark and thick materials to create an industrial atmosphere, well combined with some classical elements.
In 2012 Karalasos Operaday Architects added to this “local espresso bar”, in Thessaloniki historical district, a second split-level interior secured nearby, attempting to touch a “nostalgic” nerve in the city’s bar-resto culture, exceedingly determined by “crisis”...
The “bohemian-meets-luxurious” makeover has been enhanced by a measured hotch-potch of styles, fusing well known classical with period-industrial elements.
Now the replacement of the previous glazing flooring and parts of claddings has been contrived as a result of new terms of operation and maintenance, respecting thoughtfully the original arrangement. The need of insertion of a stand-type bar in the facade, conducted the composition of different types of translucency and tints, glasses, and flammed-leather pietra grey marble, providing a 3-dimensional effect.
The neutral and timeworn flooring has been replaced by a “pre-existing” synthesis type, as if the original has been partially patched with exodus granite and nero assoluto granite. The golden-galvanised steel plate, coated the permanently exposed to damages, part of the main round column. The overall wooden parts have been replaced by greek walnut solid wood.
