Cocina Hermanos Torres is a project born of the wish to generate a new experience vis-à-vis the world of cuisine and catering. A new space, one that is ideal for living a new culinary experience. Container and content come together in the interests of a unique experience.
“More than a restaurant with a kitchen we’d like to create a kitchen with a restaurant,” has been the Torres brothers’ premise when embarking on the transformation of a former industrial warehouse of 800 m2 that had to be completely overhauled to become “the warehouse of our dreams.” The project by the OAB studio of Carlos and Borja Ferrater is, therefore, created with a view to effacing or blurring certain dividing lines between the different spaces that make up a traditional restaurant in locating the kitchen as not only the central feature of the intervention but also as an immersive element. The restaurant is the kitchen and the scenic space where the diner is both a spectator and a protagonist.
Architecture, through the manipulation of Space, is the real-life magic for creating a reality that only previously existed in the imagination. This is the vision WAY Studio had when designing recently completed project “Aye by Meeting Someone” restaurant in Beijing — to bring dreams into actuality, to design a spatial performance, and to provide a transient surreal experience to all who dare enter.
Team: Zheng Tao, Fernie Lai, Wang Tao, Melody Hwang, Zeng Hao, Mark Wang, Yan WeiQi, Eagle Yin, Li XuDong, Li JiaXin, Huang ZanNing, Li YuZe, Yu Sida, Fan Wei, Cao Jing
The BLOX project, home of the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), contains exhibition spaces, offices and co-working spaces, a café, a bookstore, a fitness centre, a restaurant, twenty-two apartments and an underground automated public carpark, but it is not the acrobatic mixing of uses that defines this project; its ultimate achievement is in ‘discovering’ its own site.
The Old Brewery site, split into two by one of Copenhagen’s main ring roads, didn’t really register as a building site until the design of the new DAC identified it as such. Straddling the road, making public connections both above and below, BLOX connects the parliament district with the harbour front and brings culture to the water’s edge. A space for cars becomes a space for people; a space to pass through becomes a space to reside.
Photograph by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti, Courtesy of OMA
Team: Federico D’Angelo, Fred Awty, Soren Thiesen, Will Hartzog, Dennis Rasmussen, with Nina Grex, Lea Olsson, Brigitta Lenz , Anna Grajper, Chong Ying Pai, Cristina Martin de Juan, Saskia Simon, Mateusz Kiercz
Schematic Design (Project Proposal)
Team: Koen Stockbroekx, Federico D’Angelo, Paul Allen, Sebastian Arenram, Fai Au, Alessandro De Santis, Daniel Dobson, Katharina Ehrenklau, Clarisa Garcia Fresco, Waqas Jawaid, Gustavo Paternina, Parizad Pezeshkpour, Jad Semaan, Soren Thiesen, Bas van der Togt, Katrien van Dijk, Pero Vukovic, Joe Wu, Jung-Won Yoon, Haohao Zhu, Didzis Jaunzems
The South Beach development covers an entire city block between the Marina and Civic District in the heart of downtown Singapore. Combining new construction with the restoration of existing buildings, the mixed-use, energy efficient new urban quarter brings together places to live and work with shops, cafes, restaurants, a hotel and public spaces. A wide landscaped pedestrian avenue – a green spine – weaves through the site and is protected by a large canopy, which shelters the light-filled public spaces beneath from the extremes of the tropical climate.
Foster + Partners Design Team: Norman Foster, Mouzhan Majidi, David Nelson, Luke Fox, Andy Bow, Jonathan Parr, Roland Schnizer, Colin Ward, Colin Foster, Michael Gentz, Brian Timmoney, Alex Llusia Castillo, Dora Chi, Steve Chiu, Birgit Clottens, Ed Cluer, Laurence Dudley, Rammy Elsaadany, Felix Fischer, Etienne Fuchs, Ei-Kie Gam, Andrew Gardiner, Daniel Glaessel, Sebastian Gmelin, Jade Ip, Takehiko Iseki, Stefan Krakhofer, Oliver Krenz, Celia Yixin Lai, Christopher Lam, Christa Lang, Vikki Lew, Mathis Malchow, Louis Hok Man Lee, Jose Luis Martin-Oar Ripoll, Sabine Muth, Juraj Pollak, Johanna Porep, Stanley Pun, Joaquin Roesch, Matthias Schoberth, Bartenis Siaulytis, Nikola Stadler, Niall Starling, Pearl Tang, Hiroko Uchino, Glenn Van Ooteghem, Natalia Vinuela, John Voordouw, Lawrence Wong, Katie Wu, See Teck Yeo, Zheng Yu
By the time restaurateur Julian Hagood fell in love with this circa 1910 corner store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, the 50-year old refrigerator had rotted its way through the floor and pigeons had come to roost in the rafters. Keeping the name and imagining a more illustrious past for the building and space, a new, casual yet sophisticated neighborhood hotspot was born. The building was striped back to its studs and roof joists, and completely reworked. The building was reborn with a ground floor restaurant and bar, and an upstairs apartment. The restaurant is outfitted with vintage furnishings and fixtures. The dining room features a bespoke L-shaped counter, with handcrafted tables and benches. A salvaged 1950s refrigerator takes pride of place in the chef-grade kitchen, while a Victorian-era tobacconist’s case is used for storage and vintage Sheffield lighting fixtures illuminate the dining room. The 865-square-foot upstairs apartment includes a room the owner rents out via Airbnb.
The beautiful buildings of the former Sphinx ceramics factory in Maastricht provide the location for the latest project of Studio Modijefsky. The industrial heritage site has been transformed into The Commons, a contemporary restaurant and bar for the site’s new inhabitants – The Student Hotel. Located in the newest part of the monumental complex and spreading across three levels, ‘The Commons’ has a bold and vibrant interior, celebrating the heritage of both the site and the production process which used to take place in the old factory.
All good design, good architecture, relates to its environs; as well as the program or function of the space. SPOONFED is located in a new modern building so first and foremost that informed the design as we strove to create a clean, almost minimal feel with playful bursts of vibrant color. The other main inspiration is owner Sean Loeffel’s robust zest for life and hospitality. His personality and vision emanates throughout the space and dining experience. Who Sean is inspired everything, from the color palette to the materiality to the spatial flow to the detailing.
This cozy restaurant is nestled into the heart of the former French concession, Shanghai.
Gemma de Osteria uses natural hues and rustic textures contrasting more industrial details.
Osteria de Gemma, specializes in traditional Italian handmade pasta. An open kitchen adds to the warm ambience, with the feature pasta room amongst the dinners creating movement and flair. . A warm earthy colour palette with natural finishes. The space includes a bar, formal dining and a private function space.
We are the slaves of our own visual, auditive or senzitive experiences.
We live an internal universe which determines us in the cultural perception. In Bucharest, we are characterized by the extraverted, vocal, filmic spirit. We like to have it all.To be exuberant, to live for the moment. The reward of instant pleasure fills our soul.
After a few days visiting the Chinatowns of San Francisco and Vancouver, the architect designer team Guillaume Ménard and David Dworkind (MRDK) developed a clear design intention for the Miss Wong restaurant in Laval. They were inspired by the vibrant neon signage, the classic folding scissor gates, and the hanging lanterns, all of which created a bright and exciting atmosphere.
The user enters the restaurant under a low ceiling and passes through a vintage Chinese arch framing a portrait of Miss Wong herself. This compressed space then opens up into the main area of the restaurant, which is an enormous 10000 square foot space with 22-foot-tall ceilings.
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