Restaurants & Stores
The project included the renovation of the facade and the creationof a jazz club on the third floor. The building was totally transformed by being covered with a rusted metallic panel. In the Jazz club the architect tried to create the atmosphere transformable walls made of blackboards, where they seek for people’s artistic participation.
Architect : Klab Architect
Posted by keren at 5 February, 2010
This stunning modern bar was designed by Felipe Assadi and Franciesca Pulido and is located in Lima, Peru. The El Tubo Bar features a number of unique and totally unconventional elements that really make it stand out.
The space which had to be used for the construction of the bar was two rooms of the second level of one of the pavilions of the palace. Rest of the building is part of the city of Lima cultural heritage. These two spaces live together within an independent and self-referring element. A tube. The tube was drilled on the middle part of one of its walls and the middle of its ceilling generating from these holes the single blue-violet light entrance to the space. This highlights the idea that this elements floats inside the building. Inside this tube, a long futuristic bar arranged the space making the concept looking like a single element. The space near by the bar was arranged with five sculptures and huge frame pictures. The furniture which is located in the ‘hot tube’ were created under the concept of a membrance that runs along its backing structure, consistent with the lightness idea. All the furniture,dishes, everything in this bar was designed following a very abstract and neutral aesthetic.
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Posted by keren at 23 December, 2009
Kurve is a kaleidoscopic undulating non-stop space. Restaurants need strong identities in order to stand out in a place like New York; the Kurve experience takes diners to another world for an evening. Ovaloid-shaped windows, a white glass communal table, ceiling-to-floor amorphous bar, sinuous walls and booths, soft organic lounge chairs, curve patterned floors, and a cut-out window over the DJ booth all engulf guests in a hyper visual experience. The curvilinear space is juxtaposed by angular high gloss white Poly chairs. Custom printed wallpaper wraps around the restaurant so that the walls become a large mural of changing color and form, blurring borders of graphic design, art, and architecture. The graphic continues through to the glass walls of the sidewalk veranda with its large curved glass corners, offering an open view to the city.
Designer: Karim Rashid
Posted by keren at 4 December, 2009
