Courtesy of a01 Architects
Architect: a01 Architects
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Project year: 2011
Photographs : Courtesy of a01 Architects
This post is presented by S. Pellegrino, Fine Dining Lovers.
Restauranteurs are having a tougher time to please their customers, now turning into food aficionados. For the foodies, dining is more than just a gourmet, refined preparation. It’s all about the science of the food, where it comes from, how it is prepared, and dining becomes a full experience. In this aspect, the environment where the food is served has turned into a very important part of this experience.
In this post we are going to present to you restaurant projects that offer unique dining experiences, through innovative architecture.
© Stéphane Groleau
Architect: Blouin Tardif Architecture-Environnement
Location: St-Tite-des-Caps, Quebec, Canada
Client name: Station BLÜ
Project Manager: Alexandre Blouin
Project Team: Isabelle Beauchamp, Pascal Mailloux, Sophie Marquet, Guillaume Martel-Trudel, Jonathan Trottier, Alexandre Blouin
Structural/Mech./Elect. Engineer: Genivar
Contractor: Construction Marc Drolet
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Stéphane Groleau
© Ray Katchatorian
Architects: Bestor Architecture
Project Location: Culver City, California, USA
Project Team: Barbara Bestor (Principal), Cathy Johnson (Project Architect), John Colter (Senior Designer)
Landscape Architect: Urban Organics Landscape Design, Nicholas Tan
Structural: Gordon Polon Engineering
Contractor: Colin Thompson
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Ray Katchatorian
Architect: Toury Vallet
Location: Liancourt, France
Team: Nicolas Toury, Antoine Vallet, Guillaume De Martinis
Client: Conseil Général de l’Oise
Structural Engineers: ID+ Ingeniérie
Project Area: 900 sqm
Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau / David Boureau
Photo by Don Barrett - http://www.flickr.com/photos/donbrr/
At the peak of the modern era, a meshing of car culture and the Space Age brought about the gaudy and garnished Googie architecture. The signatures Googie style lie in sweeping arches and hard angles, cantilevered roofs and bold colors, and, its most relative homage to the Space Age, the starburst. The first of the Googie style, and its namesake, was a coffee shop designed by architect John Lautner by the name of “Googies”. With its place on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles the new style caught the eye of many passersby who began to associate the style with the glamour of Hollywood. The spread of this movement from Southern California went most notably north and south along the shore to become a symbol of west coast futurism. read more »
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Architect: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter (RRA)
Location: Trollveggen, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Project Area: 700 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
Courtesy of Rocco, Vidal + arquitetos
Emporio Baglione is a restaurant in a trendy and nice neighborhood. The entrance was designed as a continuation of the promenade as a square of interconnection between public and private sectors.
Architect: Rocco, Vidal+arquitetos
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project Team: Giovana Oliva , Alexandre Salles
Structure Engineer: Pedro Paulo Maciel Engenharia
Electrical Engineer: Grau Engenharia
Lighting: Foco Luz e Desenho
Photographs: Courtesy of Rocco, Vidal+arquitetos
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The Café at the Creative Alliance is the last piece of a 10-year redevelopment of the former Patterson Theater into an urban arts center and community anchor. Budget constraints and the challenge of actually fitting a commercial kitchen, bar and dining room into the remaining 1,300 sqf had delayed the build-out of the space for almost a decade and a successful design relied on formal restraint and an opportunistic attitude to all possibilities.
Architects: PI.KL Studio & Kroiz Architecture
Location: Baltimore, MD
Project Area: 1,300 sqf
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Norscode
© Danica O. Kus
Previously featured on ArchDaily, The Cube Restaurant is a pavilion designed pop up restaurant by Park Associati that will travel throughout Europe providing a unique dining experience with spectacular views. Photographer Danica Kus shared these photographs of the completed restaurant as it sits atop the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.
Architects: Park Associati – Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi with Alexia Caccavella, Alice Cuteri, Lorenzo Merloni
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: Electrolux Home Appliances Emea N.V.
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Danica O. Kus
Courtesy of bluarch
This bakery is a brand new project for the family behind the renowned Omonia brand famous for its Greek pastries. It sells pastries and breads prepared on premises in the see-through kitchen.
Architect: bluarch
Location: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Project Area: 1,200 sqf
Photographs: Courtesy of bluarch
© Michael Moran Studio
This 2000 sqf Chinese restaurant occupies a floor plan typical in New York, in which the middle of the plan is a bottleneck—a result of lightwells located on each side of the tenement building. Rather than force the design to hide this distinction of the front and the back, the approach for Xing was to accentuate the unique nature of each of the spaces. Employing a logic derived from the Surrealists’ game of the Exquisite Corpse, the space is composed of four distinct, yet interlocked areas, each defined by a specific material.
Architect: Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis Architects (LTL Architects)
Location: 785 Ninth Avenue, New York City, New York, USA
Project Team: Paul Lewis (Principal), Marc Tsurumaki (Principal), David J. Lewis (Principal), Eric Samuels, Lucas Cascardo, Alex Terzich, Matthew Roman
Contractor: Gateway Design Group
Project Area: 2000 sqf
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Michael Moran Studio
Courtesy of Rockwell Group
In Dubai, Rockwell Group has created an extension of the Nobu brand for the first Middle East location. The design is an evolution of many of the concepts developed for the flagship Nobu 57, such as the emphasis on craftsmanship, natural materials and storytelling. Large-scale computer generated woven panels surround the restaurant walls and ceiling, creating a fluid, curvilinear environment for dining. The textures and materials in this particular location were chosen to reflect the finely crafted cuisine and Nobu’s roots in the Japanese countryside, while also celebrating the Dubai beachfront context. David Rockwell, Founder and CEO of Rockwell Group, explained: “The context, landscape and history of this new restaurant brought about all sorts of new and exciting challenges. We had to think about its location not only in the Middle East, but also in Dubai as the epicenter of an ever-growing and flourishing environment for building, not to mention being more specifically in the larger-than-life Atlantis resort on Palm Jumeirah.”
Architect: Rockwell Group
Location: Atlantis The Palm, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai
Project Area: 11,500 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of Rockwell Group
In the summer of 2010, PizzaExpress commissioned London design agency Ab Rogers Design (ARD) to transform its Richmond restaurant into a ‘Living Lab’ combining experiential design, advanced developments in restaurant acoustics, and a reenergized approach to display and service. With an innate love of Italy and its inimitable food – not to mention the fond childhood memories of visiting his local branch of PizzaExpress with his Italian grandmother fresh in his mind – Rogers jumped at the chance.
Architect: Ab Rogers Design, in collaboration with DA. Studio
Location: Red Lion Street, London, TW9 1RE., England
Branding and Graphic Design: Graphic Thought Facility
Acoustic Consultant: Sergio Luzzi, Vie En.Ro.Se
Mural Artist: Enzo Apicella
AV and Interactive Consultant: Dominic Robson
Lighting Consultant: Liminaires
Project Management: The Richard Greenwood Partnership
Principle Contractor: Atlas
Photographs: Ab Rogers Design
© Clément Guillaume
Chef Fre Peneau’s new restaurant, Le Dauphin is an 80 sqm ‘obsession in white’. OMA‘s Rem Koolhaas and associate Clement Blanchet received the Fooding 2010 award for their interior design of the restaurant that opened December 2010.
Architects: Rem Koolhaas and Clement Blanchet
Location: Paris, France
Client: Fred Peneau and Inaki Aizpitarte
Project Leader: Clement Blanchet
BET Structure: Mr Ropretre Office of Study
Lighting Designer: Odile Soudant
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 80 sqm
Photographs: Ruault, Clément Guillaume
Courtesy of Rockwell Group
When Jamie Oliver decided to take his “Food Revolution“ movement on the road he sought help from the Rockwell Group to design his mobile food truck. Designed pro bono by the Rockwell Group, the truck will travel to communities to educate kids, parents and professionals about healthy food and cooking.
Architect: Rockwell Group
Photographs: Courtesy of Rockwell Group
© Paul Bardagjy
The design of La Condesa is the unique collaboration of local designers, artists, and artisans to create a space inspired by the contemporary architecture of Mexico with a composition of contrasting textures, colors and levels of finish and craft.
More on La Condesa after the break.
Architect: Michael Hsu Office of Architecture
Location: 400A West 2nd Street, Austin, TX, USA
Project Team: Michael Hsu, Kevin Stewart, Maija Kreishman, Micah Land
Contributing Decorator: One Eleven Design
Landscape Design: D-Crain
Mural Design: Sodalitas Art Group
Project Area: 4,400 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Paul Bardagjy
© Lars Frazer Photography
Named for the business owners, Icenhauer’s is located in the up and coming Rainey Street bar district of Austin. The site originally contained a house built in 1893, of which the front two rooms complete with original wood interior siding were saved and restored as a part of this new cocktail lounge.
More on Icenhauer’s, including pictures and drawings, after the break.
Architect: Michael Hsu Office of Architecture
Location: 83 Rainey St Austin, TX, USA
Project Team: Michael Hsu, Maija Kreishman, Allison Burke
General Contractor: Franklin-Alan
Landscape Design: Jackie Hadler Design
Project Area: 2,775 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Lars Frazer Photography
© Paul Bardagjy
Uchiko is the sister restaurant to one of Austin’s most respected restaurants, Uchi, which is operated by renowned chef Tyson Cole. The design evokes the atmosphere of a simple Japanese farmhouse with an emphasis on natural materials and evidence of craftsmanship.
Project description, images, and drawings after the break.
Architect: Michael Hsu Office of Architecture
Project Team: Michael Hsu, Jay Colombo, Maija Kreishman
Location: 4200 North Lamar, Austin, TX, USA
Contractor: Blue and Associates
Landscape Design: D-Crain
Contributing Decorator: One Eleven Design
Project Area: 4,995 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Paul Bardagjy
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