Located in the heart of downtown Toronto’s Financial District in the First Canadian Place Building, King Taps is a 10,450-sf restaurant and bar, featuring 450 seats, two bars and two patios sprawled over two stories. Assembledge+ designed the spaces with a refined palette of black walnut, artisan tile, reclaimed brick, Carrara marble, steel and brass. Furnishings include butcher-block walnut tables, black leather seating, brass pendant lighting, and accent bar stools. State-of-the-art technology has been infused in every detail, from the screens and booths that are equipped with USB and electrical outlets, to the kitchen, featuring pizza ovens and sophisticated beer tap equipment.
The key to the restaurant/bar was to maximize opportunities for open-air dining with sliding glass panels to accommodate weather year-around, while taking in the views and engaging all the energy and action of the community.
APPAREIL Architecture rose to the challenge of redesigning the Bar St-Denis in the image of its new owners, the chefs David Gauthier and Emily Homsy, previously of Montréal Plaza and the Pied de Cochon. Inspired by the aesthetics of “gentlemen clubs”, the Bar St-Denis proposes an inviting atmosphere where sharing plates and wine take center stage. In the image of its Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, the space offers an ambience that is both refined and welcoming.
The bet was an ambitious one, as the space had already acted as a bar for many years. Wishing to distinguish itself from the former institution, the APPAREIL Architecture team relied on the use of materials such as marble and wood, which lend the bar its character. Particular attention was given to the space’s layout, to favour a closeness between staff and clients.
Solo Crudo is a place for those who want to take care of themselves with raw food, an experience that proves a proper awareness in maintaining the beneficial and nutritional properties of the ingredients.
The restaurant, located in the business district of Milan, is an aesthetic interpretation of this philosophy, focusing on the processing of a harmonious architectural space.
With four wide glass windows open itself on a brand new part of the city and the BNP Diamond Tower, establishing with it a dialogue of reflections and visual interactions.
McDonald’s has just opened the first Landini Associates designed flagship store in New York City’s iconic Times Square. The new store replaces the original restaurant that opened in 1984, located on the corner of 45th and Broadway.
Built over three floors, the restaurant is an evolution of Landini’s global format for McDonald’s, Project Ray, named after the brand’s founder Ray Kroc. The colourful graphic environments that became the signature for McDonald’s internationally are replaced with a quieter approach; the walls of the store decorated only with occasional abstractions of the golden arches, framing the view outside.
This flagship adopts a composed yet bold approach to design, creating a calm environment of respite in contrast to the energy of the square outside. A three-story glass curtain wall provides customers with spectacular dining room views out to the beating heart of NYC, and a yellow staircase injects a pop of vibrancy whilst threading its way skywards.
The store or the usual market as the daily venue in town is for everyone the symbol of exchanging news, fragrances, flavors, emotions… it’s the place to get a real cultural pulse or a vitaminizing sensorial experience.
B4 is the place where like at the market we are assaulted by a multitude of objects, colors and materials vibrated by the light of the moment that open our senses towards a possible revealing feel. the visual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory emotions display here one by one into a “garden” of experiences, touching the “explorers” within us in the context of the new Bucharest urban landscape…
The project derives from a parallel study won by Aeby Perneger & Associés through the Cooperative Les Ailes.
The building is inserted in the urban plan of the eco-quartier of Verges, with the role to highlight one of the gateways of the quartier and complete a series of towers along the Napoleonic route that leads from Geneva to Saint-Genis-Pouilly though the CERN.
The volume to construct counts 11 floors above ground, placed on a 2-storey basement, with a total of 13 levels inscribed in a 22×45 m rectangle. Following the wish of the cooperative, the program of the building is mixed: 22 dwellings for elders provided with welcome facilities for the neighborhood, about 75 family dwellings, medical practices, offices and businesses, also including a small supermarket and a restaurant.
The design for this modern Mexican restaurant in downtown Austin establishes a protected urban sanctuary for Comedor’s progressive dining experience. Located on Fifth and Colorado, a busy intersection in Austin’s central business district, the new building takes a strong corner position to leave space for a protected open-air inner courtyard.
“Veiled transparency evokes a sense of refuge from the busy urban street outside. Yet while you’re enjoying the protected courtyard space, you don’t lose sight of the surrounding urban context. You remain absolutely rooted in Austin.” –Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, Design Principal
Paul Cashin Architects and Design Engine Architects have collaborated to complete the refurbishment and extension of a 17th Century Grade II Listed public house and restaurant in the village of Crawley, near Winchester.
The building had deteoriated after being left unused and empty for a number of years. The scheme sought to redevelop and transform the premises to create a new destination and business at the heart of the community and surrounding area.
Situated in the prime area of Vadodara the restaurant with 1600 sqft. area on ground focuses to encompass the ecology and built form of the space through modern aspects based on vibrant aesthetics, and functionality to derive architectural and interior balance in limited budget.
Experiencing the visual profile of the facade and characteristic of the space the interiors evolve through unimagined ways giving a sense of relatedness to the 16 years old legacy of the restaurant. The designing team transforms this erstwhile space through combinations of contemporary concepts with abstract aesthetics of bold triangular geometry through lighter and brighter space interiors which create warm as well as welcoming feel.
Located in tower #4 of the Centro Corporativo Ekopark, this place is conditioned by various facts. Firstly, this is the only tower of the complex that has a LEED certification, which generates some building, energetic, and equipment requirements. Secondly, the place is a space of 290m2, of which, the 70% is basically part of the underground level, that why there are low lighting and natural ventilation.
The order was to implement a dining room for mainly supplying to the tower but with free access to the general public. It was calculated a daily circulation from 400 to 600 people. We sought an optimum use of the space, exploitation of the entire area, efficient flows, and generate a space that hosts after-office activities.
The average age of users is 35 years old, and they are mostly operations executives of large business; however, the space has to contemplate a diversity of ages and business positions. Additionally, near this tower, it is located one of the campuses of Universidad de las Américas, which also generated a target group that could be potential space users.
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