Restaurants & Stores
Who would be brave enough to take on conceptualizing a re-design project that stands next to the iconic Sydney Opera House and pairs up with Japanese celebrity chef Raita Noda? Award-wining designer Yasumichi Morita of Glamourus Inc. was brave enough for the job, and in the end showed us what happens when Japanese tradition meets the modern world.
Posted by Dana Pruskowski at 27 July, 2010
Hot, Spicy and Ready to Go. Fusing ultra modern aesthetics with the sultry style of 50s era Shanghai, Gingerboy brings the Asian hawker dining experience to Melbourne, Australia.
When famed restauranter Teague Ezard decided on the street-stall inspired menu he turned to award winning Architects Elenberg Fraser to create a space that would complement his innovative dining vision. Starting with the oversized neon entryway sign and gilded façade, Gingerboy’s playful details will delight design aficionados as much as the highly touted menu appeals to foodies.
Posted by Diana Cook at 16 July, 2010
New York Firm Stephanie Goto designed this featured eatery, Aldea Restaurant. Stepahine Goto is a total concept design firm that specializes in space, architectural and other media design. Aldea is a slim, yet sleek and stylish two-story commercial space. Its design is very modern and very “New York” chic.
Posted by Allison Lane at 28 June, 2010
Pio Pio’s Hells Kitchen NYC restaurant, designed by San Diego based architecture firm Sebastian Mariscal Studio, is a great example of modern restaurant design that is infused with cultural aesthetics. This contemporary commercial space offers NYC and visiting restaurant goers a Latin American respite from the busy and sometimes overwhelming New York City street scape.
Posted by Allison Lane at 12 May, 2010
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 Fathi-Poor 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 Fathi-Poor 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 Fathi-Poor at 4 December, 2009
