Pé do Rio – Restaurante & Café in Leiria, Portugal by Cubic Office

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Located in the heart of the city – Leiria, Portugal, the existing building with more than 150 years is part of the historic center. It integrates the front of the pedestrian path Polis program, side by side with a protected area of the National Ecological Reserve that surrounds the border of the river Lis. The refurbishment included in recovery and restoration of the \”shell\” of the main building, saving the most of the facades and architectural and decorative structural elements.

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• Architects: Cubic Office (Sandrine Maia & Susana Venâncio, arquitectas)
• Project: Pé do Rio – Restaurante & Café
• Location: Leiria, Portugal

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Restoration as respect for history, reinterpreting its content, was the theme we were interested in exploring.
Literally a “raw space” with barren walls and ceilings, the architect’s team worked closely with the client to bring innovative design, ample working space and waiting areas as well as warmth and character to the 140 seat restaurant. The result is a modern space that uses traditional warm materials such as wood, glass and stone, inspirational and innovative way.
Each space was carefully designed between the modern and the traditional, which reinforces the thematic relationship between old and new.

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If in the one hand are chosen materials, from the other are chosen ingredients; one follows a concept, the other a plan; one follows a trend, the other the new. One should be admired the other tasted, but both serve a single purpose:
Feed the soul of people!
And it was exactly that the course of our work – feed your dreams and desires, creating for that environments that reflect their habits and desires.

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Tags: Leiria, Portugal

Categories: Cafeteria, Restaurant

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