Hollow Restaurant by Sergei Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko
Sergei Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko have designed the Hollow Restaurant, barely entering, you will feel the merger with nature. Title ´Hollow’ is the key of the interior. The restaurant is divided into two floors. On the first floor – a dining area with a delicious meal that will delight even the most refined tastes, on the second – a lounge zone where improvised gorge creates the effect of comfort and complete security from the outside world.
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Tori Tori Restaurant by Rojkind Arquitectos + Esrawe Studio
Tori Tori Restaurant is the result of a collaboration between Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio.The restaurant is based in Polanco, Mexico City, where Architect Michel Rojkind and Industrial Designer Hector Esrawe teamed up.
The Façade, which seems to emerge from the ground climbing up through the building, as if mimicking the natural ivy surrounding the retaining walls, is made up of two self-supporting layers of steel plates cut with a CNC machine and handcrafted to exact specifications. The facade’s pattern responds to the inside openings, filtering light, shadows, and views that will constantly invade the interior spaces. An atmosphere enriched by the spectrum of subtle changes.
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‘Café Day,’ Japan by Suppose Design Office
For their renovation of this Izakaya (Japanese style bar) based in the quiet residential area of Numazu-shi, Shizuoka Suppose Design Office have taken inspiration from car parks, a driving school and a road. Benches designed to emulate bus stops and car seats transformed in sofas accompany the startlingly unique painted asphalt flooring complete the sensation that a road runs right on through this thoroughly unique space.
‘PHANTOM,’ Opera Garnier Restaurant by ODBC Architects
The new restaurant of the Opera opened in July 2011, has been conceptualized and designed by French architect Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architects (ODBC). The architect had to deal with many constraints as it was forbidden to touch or alter the original structure as the restaurant needed to be “reversible”. “All our facilities, piers, mezzanines and equipment were integrated into the site without touching the stones,” owner Pierre-Francois Blanc was quoted as saying in le JDD. Working within construction limitations and standards applied to French historic buildings is challenging, to say the least. Thus, there is no visible structure and the restaurant sorts of floats above the ground.
The facade of the restaurant is a veil of undulating glass, sliding between each pillar. With no visible structure, the glass is held in place by a single strip of bent steel running along the arched curve of the ceiling. This steel strip is fixed to the upper cornices of the columns 6 meters above the ground with stainless steel connecting rods. The glass is therefore held in place as if « by magic ». The façade therefore allows for clear views and a minimum impact. Providing enough floor space to seat 90 people was another requirement for this limited space.
The mezzanine was therefore created as a continuous surface. Narrow columns extend upwards towards the molded plaster hull, which curves to form the edges of the handrail. This vessel, which has been slipped under the cupola, is a cloud formation floating between the existing elements of the room without touching them. It’s an allusion to the changing form of the phantom, whose white veil glides surreptitiously in space. Quietly, almost insidiously, the soft protean curves of the mezzanine cover the space with a volume that arches, undulates, and floats above the guests. The space is open and turned outward. Read More…
Cafe Vue in St Kilda Road, Melbourne by Elenberg Fraser
Café Vue is the latest addition to Shannon Bennett’s Vue brand which serves café style French food. The interior by architect Elenberg Fraser draws on the life of Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles; creating a contemporary French café in central Melbourne.
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“Twister” Restaurant in Ukraine by Sergey Makhno & Vasiliy Butenko
“Twister” is a newly opened restaurant in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The design team, Sergey Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko also work on residential and commercial interiors and architecture but we are particularly fascinated by their furniture and their sculptural approach to interiors. the project also features a double-height restaurant, with curving booths on stilts above the regular dining furniture below. The drop-shaped lamps are intended to represent rain.
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The Cube Restaurant by Park Associati for Electrolux Pops Up in Brussels
Electrolux has opened the doors of the Cube designed by Park Associati, a unique restaurant with a very exclusive view.
Crowning the beautiful, 30-hectare Parc du Cinquantenaire, the Arc de Triomphe is the perfect home for The Cube in Brussels. Erected in 1905, the intricately carved arch commemorates the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence in 1880.
The Cube’s location atop the arch will offer diners once-in-a-lifetime views over the park and the Brussels skyline beyond.
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Aichinger House, Austria by Hertl Architekten
Called ‘Aichinger House,’ this two storey apartment building reinvented by Hertl Architekten was a restaurant with two bars but the challenge for the architects was to renovate one of the bars into two flats. The most intriguing element of the project is the light grey curtain covering the external walls: a decorative object, normally used indoor, is building a fascinating facade.”
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Wienerwald Restaurant by Ippolito Fleitz Group
Stuttgart practice Ippolito Fleitz Group have completed the interiors for a fast-food chicken restaurant in Germany. The restaurant was established in 1955 by Friedrich Jahn who expanded the restaurant to over 18 countries.
The fast growing chain grew into branches in 18 countries. After the first generation, the restaurant passed through several ownerships until the grandchildren of the founding family bought it back in 2007. Seeking to reconnect and strengthen the tradition of the brand, the new ownership commissioned Fleitz Group to develop the new corporate roll out for the chain and regain brand awareness in Munich.
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“Das Neue Kubitscheck,” Patisserie by Designliga
Designliga created the new interior in Munich and branding for this patisserie owned by a Munich punk on a crusade against doilies. The project involved revamping a 1950’s confectioner’s in line with the company’s new slogan “Fuck the Backmischung!” (Fuck the Cake Mix). The interior is divided by long benches forming smaller enclosures and cakes are displayed in a jumble of boxes mounted on the wall above the serving counter.
Sosushi Restaurant by UAU Design Studio
The new take-away restaurant designed for the sushi brand Sosushi designed by Francesca from UAU Design Studio had to meet requirements of turning a small old stationery store, deep seated in the historical urban structure of the city, into a trendy place. UAU has been successful in maximizing the limited space offering each intersection of materials by using – shelves, benches and cubbies. This has helped avoiding nooks and corners to remain unused. Made of clean cut shapes emphasized by matt white finish and furniture details coloured magenta, the space, though overworked, is an harmonious composition balanced through the use of Plexwood.
The Tote, Mumbai, India by Serie Architects
In the middle of one of Mumbai’s most beautiful open spaces, an old shell has been given a new interior. UK architects Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta of Serie Architects have redesigned ‘The Tote’, a banquet hall, restaurant and bar. The colonial facade of the Tote building gives way to what looks like a bleached, enchanted forest. In the banqueting and indoor restaurant areas, white metal pillars branch out like trees as they reach the ceiling, creating the effect of walking down a forest path.
Strategically placed skylights in abstract shapes, mimicking sunlight breaking through dense foliage, heighten that feeling. By contrast, the 40ft long bar upstairs is all dark chocolate wood. The faceted wood panels on the walls give the impression of looking through a kaleidoscope, or at paper that was folded to make an origami figure and then opened out. The original cubbyhole-like windows, through which bets were placed, have been retained.
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Re.evolution lounge+bar ,Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
a10 studio has just sent us their new project: the Re.evolution lounge+bar, in the center of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
It is a project that you’d most probably be seeing in Miami or LA than in a touristy Mexican beach resort; it provides some fresh air to the city nightlife, and has also unintentionally triggered a micro urban renewal in the neighborhood.
Celluloid Jam House in Yokohama, Japan by Norisada Maeda
Entitled Celluloid Jam, this house created by Norisada Maeda features walls that aim to flow continuously around the exterior, from inside to outside and back again like a Moebius strip.
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KAA Restaurant, Sao Paulo by Studio Arthur Casas
KAA restaurant designed by Sao Paulo’s own Arthur de Mattos Casas of Studio Arthur Casas Architecture and Design is one of the hottest new restaurants in São Paulo, Brazil.
A massive green wall with more than 7,000 live plants from the Atlantic forest, a retractable roof over a section of the space, a staircase leading to a mezzanine-level lounge, and a dividing wall behind the bar, all add to the magnificent feeling of airy relaxation.
The furniture is contemporary and the philosophy of this place is transporting the urban “paulista” to a Green environment, it’s an escape from the chaos.
