the venture partners RIBA–royal institute of british architects–members with international and upcoming chinese retailers. working closely with their retail partner fountain restaurant, atelier I-N-D-J teamed up with CTHM architects to create ‘fountain flow’. the restaurant is located in the heart of xintiandi; set at the rear of a courtyard that sees heavy traffic, it ...
Aim: Create a restaurant where the focus is on the food. Blurred, organic forms are supposed to dominate the overall appearance. As many people as possible are supposed to fit into the room, at the same time a big amount of people must not disturb the special atmosphere. In the foyer the original architectural condition from approx. 1850 was restored, with archways fo...
Custom couches and other lounge seating stands out across the open space. The playful design nevertheless exudes some calm, appropriate as passengers wait to board planes. Slade Architecture answered some question about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? The project was awarded through an invited competition, which...
However, in the upper price ranges international products from Europe, California or Australia are becoming more and more common in the shops. In the big cities, specialized convenient stores and specialty wine shops have emerged in the last five years. The market for domestic wine production in joint ventures with foreign companies also has grown, and often the compan...
Inside, the home for Yoji Tajima's haute Japanese cuisine is enlivened by leafy plants suspended from the ceiling, diagonal slashes of light on the walls, and two inverted "bento boxes" with bold red interiors. Dan Brunn answered some questions about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? I met the client, chef Giacomin...
Like the first two of Shamil and Kavi Thakrar's London restaurants, the third Dishoom pays homage to the Irani cafes that sprung up around Bombay – now Mumbai – during the first half of the 20th century. The Thakrars modelled the new restaurant on a "godown" – or warehouse – they imagined behind the Indian city's Victoria station. In their story, an Irani immigrant se...
The Reformatory Caffeine Laboratory by Louise Nettleton is situated behind the garage door of an old driveway. A frosted glass and black-framed shopfront concertinas from ceiling to floor like a garage door, as a reminder of its former use. There is standing room only in the 3.5 by 15 metre space, so customers drink at the bar. The L-shaped counter is made from matte st...
Matthew Grzywinski and Amador Pons were commissioned to design the reception and bar of Urban Villa, a 100-room boutique hotel in a new-build tower in Brentford, west London. The space had already been finished with clean white walls and suspended ceilings, but the architects wanted to make it appear more rustic so they stripped away the new finishes to reveal the servi...
Ninkipen! used a variety of materials for the interior of Ito-biyori cafe to create a "simple and warm atmosphere". "The main idea of this design is to make the atmosphere harmonise with the organic foods that are offered in the cafe," said architect Yasuo Imazu. The small Jabuticaba tree grows from a chunky square planter, positioned opposite the large mirror that...
Named F Coffee, the small brick cafe occupies a site near the airport in Dong Hoi, a city in Quang Binh Province. Principal architect Le Vu Quang wanted to create as simple a structure as possible, so came up with a design for a quadrangle building made up of brick walls and arched openings. "We usually start with the most basic and easy-to-understand ideas," Le Vu...
Located in the hamlet of Abshoven in the Dutch province of Limburg, the Brasserie Abshaove cafe now offers lattes and sandwiches instead of liturgy and sermons. Originally belonging to the abbey farm of Val-Dieu, this complex was comprised of a manor house and barn, which eventually grew into a full-fledged monastery in the early 1900s. In 2011, a developer signed an...
The 8,000-square-foot bar is made from multiple containers, each featuring its own unique interior design, that are stacked on top one another to create a sublime outdoor experience. Some of the designs make you feel like you've been transported to a whole new world - we highly recommend clicking through the gallery to see pictures of this stellar new project. The bar...
Sitting in the middle of a prestigious vineyard, the Château La Dominique is on neighbourly terms with some of the most famous appellations in the world: Cheval Blanc, Petrus, Figeac, La Conseillante, l’Evangile... It clearly needed to mark its territory by bringing out and transforming a very special landscape. And so the idea was born of creating an object that would ...
Chef and visionaire Douglas McMaster has set out to change the way eateries source, cook and sell their food through his newly opened restaurant Silo. Located in Brighton, it prides itself of being UK’s first zero-waste restaurant and serves seasonal, local, vegetarian food, filters water through osmosis, grinds wheat for making bread, and composts all organic waste. Bai...
An initiative of Raw Nerve and designed by Studio Myerscough, the Deptford Cafe was made from an old train carriage donated by South East Trains about three years ago. The cafe is part of a creative community space called The Deptford Project, which also includes designers' studios, a communal garden and an outdoors silent cinema with fantastic blooming umbrellas made fr...
Vertical Garden Design’s latest project is a 113 square meter vertical garden in Espaço Espelho d'Água - a new restaurant/gallery/concert venue located next to the river in Belem, Lisbon. The garden wraps around the four walls of a kitchen inserted in the open space of the renovated '40s pavilion. Several windows cut through the lush surface, providing views from one si...
This project aimed to re-organise an existing nightclub, whose leitmotiv was grounded in sparkling, coloured lights inside a dark box. The nightclub is then conceived as a light, sound and movement tuner. Therefore the plan is based in a gradual composition of those three elements. The central part is shaped as an area for dancing and maximum vibration – convulsive, int...
Located in a gallery tucked behind a glass storefront in Osaka, the Yorunoma bar was previously used as a meeting and workshop space. The pop-up bar's mysterious atmosphere was accentuated by dim lighting that enhanced the space which was covered in crumpled swathes of translucent tracing paper. Located in the Abeno-Ku ward of Osaka, the grotto-like Yorunoma bar sat i...
Founded by creative director Natalie Viaux (concept and design) and Dr. Christiane Cordes (health consultant), TTCCH’s focus is vegetarian and vegan food, to go, to stay and take-away. The exterior of the high-cube container is pearl green, the wall and cieling surfaces are faced with Norwegian birch, copper details softly accentuate the bar area. The view from the la...
The project explored many possibilities in terms of treating the site as an entertainment precinct including gastro pub, themed restaurant highlighting the different areas of the venue. The client insisted on a highly visual, rich interior, with the design conceived more as a theatre play than a traditional design process, basically staging the venue. By creating the sta...
A description from the designer Stix, a new Mediterranean restaurant in Chelsea, NYC got a full dose of atmosphere through a handmade rope lace installation by Mantzalin.The screen, evoking images of grapes and olives in the maritime tradition of the Mediterranean, separates the dining room and the bar. The usually delicate bobbin lace technique is translated from fi...
Designed once more by DesignAgency under the supervision under the supervision of Generator’s Creative Director Anwar Mekhayech, the property includes a welcoming lobby, a vibrant bar, a restaurant with garden-facing veranda, a spacious chill out area, and a spectacular rooftop terrace with sunset views of Montmartre and Sacré Coeur. The interiors capture the romance of ...
The firm repurposed the store’s original style into a modern, functional atmosphere. The concept behind the restaurant is the result of three integrated ideas. 1.The traditional “open kitchen”: In guatemala, it’s tradition that the dining experience relates directly to the outside environment. Whether it’s under a pergola, an interior with large windows, or an open pa...
Inspired by the fusion of cuisines represented on the menu, José invites guests into a space that blends Peruvian, Chinese and Japanese cultures. With a design motif that separates itself from traditional folklore, José reimagines China Chilcano with a contemporary and personal take on a large, grand dining room- a welcoming and popular space in which to dine. Full of...
Behind Block is restaurateur Kim Heiniö, who in the past years has opened multiple restaurants all over Helsinki. Block by Dylan is the fifth restaurant in the Dylan -family, and yet it is unique and different from the others because of its central location and elaborate interior. The restaurant space has been designed by designer duo Suvi-Maria Silvola & Laura Seppän...
For his new Mediterranean-inflected restaurant, the ambitious owner chose an imposing space on McGill, in an old warehouse that had more recently served as an artist’s studio. He selected blazysgérard to take on the challenge of crafting a strong identity for the space. The concept is based on a reinterpretation of the characteristic architecture of Greece and neighb...
The town of Ostfildern, the owners of the building, wished to establish a space in which café meets culture. The café redesign should thus enable its use for small concerts by a nearby music school or cabaret shows. The new tenants on the other hand wished to realise their concept for high-end bistro food, reflected in a sophisticated interior design. The new interior...
This 80-seat destination restaurant occupies a set of forgotten arches in the catacombs below Glasgow’s Central Station and is so named after Alston St, the main thoroughfare of Glasgow’s mysterious, forgotten Grahamston Village that stood at the crossroads of the main north-south and east-west axes of Glasgow, and which was built over in the 1800s to create the station....
Situated on the west face of the neoclassical building, looking out onto Lancaster Place and Waterloo Bridge, the new day-to-night venue has been named after Sir James Pennethorne — the highly-reputed architect of the 19th century who was responsible for Somerset House’s 'New Wing' (which now houses the café/bar) as well as other landmarks in London. As was the case with...
Completed in October 2014 by Barcelona-based design studio Lagranja, the restaurant’s interior is a playful tribute to Catalan culture, reflecting the restaurant’s motto of ‘‘fine fun food’’ seen in the giant papier-mâché masks called ‘capgrossos’ (typical of local festivals) that hang from the ceilings and the entire bar which has been covered with domino tiles (an inhe...
The multifaceted site – a former textile factory and half domestic residence – has been updated with two new cocktail lounge bars, a casual ground floor canteen, a new raised dining area overlooking an open kitchen and a new ‘Little Room’ for private dining and meetings. The desire behind this project was to inject warmth, intrigue and quirky love back into Village E...
Scaffolding, fire escapes, and security gates unintentionally contribute to the urban character of Manhattan. These urban necessities are ubiquitous and forgettable. However, without these items, the visual context of the street would be very different. When these utilitarian components are brought into focus, there is an expression of patterns and raw material that have...
Hence the idea of working with various seating options and different heights to achieve this. We have respected the existing architecture, painting the whole envelope in a warm color to work from a neutral box, and where the spatial distribution has remained in its original condition, and only modifying the distribution of the decorative elements. used the finest mat...
Inside Festival 2014: architect Joyce Wang explains how she used styles from throughout Hong Kong's history to design the restaurant that was named World Interior of the Year 2014 in this exclusive video interview. "Hong Kong's past is a patchwork of imperial Chinese and colonial British influences," says Wang. "It was important for us that the restaurant had a very Hon...
As working in a green environment is the main concept of the campus the landscape literally continues in to the entrance hall of the conference building, so nature and architecture melt together in the heart of the campus. Standing in the tall entrance hall you can see the restaurant, and the 25 conference rooms located on different floors. The restaurant, seating 7...
The restaurant’s disguised façade is informed by the fictionalnarrative of two star crossed lovers who secretly reunite in midlife.As the legend suggests, the restaurant’s namesake character Mrs. Poundwas a renowned burlesque dancer in 1950’s Shanghai. Weary of thelimelight, the glamorous femme fatale retires in 1960’sHong Kong to seek refuge with her childhood love, the...
