Bangalore restaurant interior, London, designed by Outline

Judged by a panel of high-profile editors from the design, lifestyle and hospitality sectors, the UK Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 09/10 has announced its shortlist.

Bar Missoni interior, Edinburgh, designed by Matteo Thun

Now in its second year, the awards scheme is the only one of its kind to recognise this particular type of design project. This year’s shortlist includes submissions from Matteo Thun, Nigel Coates and Conran & Partners. The awards ceremony will take place on 22 June at a venue overlooking London’s new 2012 Olympic Park.

Viet Hoa restaurant interior, London, designed by Vonsung

Comptoir Libanais interior, London, designed by Born

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Winecenter Kaltern, photo by Hertha Hurnaus

The Vienna based feld72 architekten designed this new retail outlet, called the “Winecenter” which was constructed for the Winegrowers’ Cooperative in Caldaro, a well-known town along the South Tyrolean wine route in Northern Italy. 

Winecenter Kaltern, photo by Hertha Hurnaus

 ”The new builging is at the entrance to Caldaro, at the end of a row of wine-cellar vuildings, directly on the wine route. As a landmark on the way from Bolzano to Lago di Caldaro, it takes into consideration both the mobile aesthetics of the 21st century as well as the local identity. The heights of the monolithic corpus mediate between the tall main building built in 1911 and smaller buidings added in recent decades, creating an intimate courtyard through its L-shaped floor plan. The skin made of coloured concrete reinforced with fibreglass stretches across the exterior walls and roof, emphasizing, along with the flush window surfaces, the monolithic character of the building. Tension arises between the perception of the uniform shell and the sindle large interior space that it encloses where a sckulptural landscape unfolds, its different heights alone creating a complex progression of atmospheres and spatial impressions. On the inside a veritable wine tour is created, with fluent transitions between the different levels of the encounter eith the product wine.”

Winecenter Kaltern, photo by Hertha Hurnaus

Winecenter Kaltern, photo by Hertha Hurnaus

Winecenter Kaltern, photo by Hertha Hurnaus

Winecenter Kaltern, photo by Hertha Hurnaus

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Yufutoku Restaurant by ISSHO Architects, photo by Koichi Torimura

This restaurant in the center of Tokyo was designed by the young and promising ISSHO Architects. The sculptural facade, made of wooden discs reflects the daylight in a constantly changing pattern.

Yufutoku Restaurant by ISSHO Architects, photo by Koichi Torimura

“Located in central Tokyo, right around the corner from the major thoroughfare Meguro Street, is a ‘soba’ noodle shop, the owner’s residence situated above. The building has Machiya-style wooden louvers, invoking a traditional Japanese townhouse, but the depth of each louver is varied sequentially across the face. Regionally different patterns of light spill through the façade from the interior, allowing a gradual change of character at dawn, especially as viewed from the main street.”

Yufutoku Restaurant by ISSHO Architects, photo by Koichi Torimura

Yufutoku Restaurant by ISSHO Architects, photo by Koichi Torimura

Yufutoku Restaurant by ISSHO Architects, photo by Koichi Torimura

Yufutoku Restaurant by ISSHO Architects, photo by Koichi Torimura

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'(stads)paviljoen in Roosendaal Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten

Recently the Dutch René van Zuuk Architekten unveiled their design for a pavilion on the central place of Roosendaal, a provincial town in the southwest of the Netherlands. The oval pavilion is the resualt of the city’s initiavtive from 2001, which implied to ban cars from the New Market in the centre of town by building a huge two storey underground parking.

'(stads)paviljoen' by René van Zuuk Architekten

“In order to create a new public square the city of Roosendaal asked the urban design office Quadrat to make a proposition. In their scheme they proposed to pave the square with red and brown brick, plant 15 trees, make three exits for the underground parking and as the most visible and important element they proposed a restaurant and coffee pavilion in the form of an oval.

Four years later a public design and construction bidding for contractors was organised. Just before they had to submit their entry to the city, the municipality decided to include the pavilion as well. Therefore they asked the office of Rene van Zuuk to make a design for the pavilion including the contract drawings over a very short span (5 weeks), due to these limitations there was no time to make big changes in the urban scheme and the location and the form of the pavilion was copied from the original urban proposal.”

Terrace, photo by Christian Richters

“The idea behind the urban proposal was that the pavilion would divide the square in two parts in such a way that you would still have the feeling of being on one big square. Because of the market activities which occupy the entire square twice a week, the terraces of the pavilion needed to be placed above the ground floor . Originally the terraces could only be reached by going through the pavilion. Rene van Zuuk decided to make the terraces accessible from the outside of the building as well so you can walk from the square up onto the sloped roof to the terraces letting the roof become a public area. The entrances from the roof to the building are made by cuts in the sloped surface giving every floor its own terrace. The rest of the roof acts as a big stage which allows artists to give a performances in front of the building. 

On the south side the pavilion reaches its highest point. This part of the building cantilevers over the main entrance of the parking garage allowing daylight to penetrate deep into the two levels below.”

Terrace, photo by Christian Richters

“In order to make the cuts in the roof and to accommodate the cantilevering part of the building, the structure is made by a simple braced steel grid of 4.2m x 4.2m and 3 m high. 
The orientation of the grid coincides with the location of the entrance of the main shopping passage. This results in a new direction on the square making the space more dynamic. The original square dates from just after the war until the 1970′s, the architecture was cold and the color monotonous. The new urban scheme is warm in nature thanks to the trees and use of brick. It was obvious that the pavilion should blend in with this character and therefore wood was the most appropriate choice of material. Because the quality of most of the original buildings around the pavilion is not that high, the urban scheme and the new pavilion have to work together as a catalyst to upgrade this part of the city.”

The cantilevering part, photo by Christian Richters

Design team: René van Zuuk Architekten 
Members of the design team: Jorrit Spel, Chimo Villa Belda
customer: Gemeente Roosendaal / NL

Usable floor area: 620 m² 

Built-up area: 518 m²

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'Z am Park' in Zurich by Aekae, Photo by Nico Schaerer

The architects from Aekae presented us their newest interior project. The Cafe/Bar “Z am Park” is situated at a Park in a former workers district of Zurich, and offers 45 seats inside, and 50 on the terrace. They serve an exceptional coffee, and on the small but nice menu there are drinks and bites, with a brunch special on weekends.

'Z am Park' in Zurich, Photo by Nico Schaerer

More information gives us the architects:

The location at the Park offers nice views of the trees, and we didn’t want to distract from these with a flashy, over designed interior, thus keeping it simple. 

Inspiration came from Classic elements of a French park-café that where interpreted in a modern way. The main Objective of the Design was to create an unpretentious and relaxed space that effortlessly combines the old and the new. 

We questioned the common perception and placing of materials, while being reasonnable in the use of them. So parts of the former flooring, an oak-herringbone-parquet, were used to form the Bar and Couches, all contrasted by the warm gray, monochromatic Space. 

Materials were re-used where possible; old curtains were handpicked for the shifting upholstery, and a modular vintage lamp (by Trix and Robert Haussmann, 1965), was chosen to create a glowing lighting.

We wanted the interior to keep evolving, so instead of just placing the classic Horgenglarus Bistrochairs (Mod. Classic 1-380) in the Space, we asked various artists and designers to each re-work 4 of them in their own way.

'Z am Park' by Aekae, Photo by Nico Schaerer

Lighting

seen @ Dezona

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The new project on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Nomiya restaurant is replacing the Hotel Everland on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo for one year. Designed by the artist Laurent Grasso, the glass cube is part of the ‘Art Home’ culinary project by Electrolux and the Palais de Tokyo.

Nomiya

Nomiya owes its name to the Japanese micro restaurants. In the kitchen star chef Gilles Stassart, former manager of the Transversal au Mac/Val, demonstrates his skills. Nomiya was created in cooperation with the architect Pascal Grasso. The programme offers tours and cooking ateliers, workshops and breakfast and dinners with breathtaking views of France’s capital city.

View over Paris from the restaurant

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Tamarai Restaurant in Cairo

The Beirut-based architects of PSLAB recently developed for a restaurant in Cairo a lighting system made of metallic beams carrying horseshoe-like fixtures.

The grid of the substructure is induced by the façade’s architectural layout of windows and walls. 

Lighting system by PSLAB Beirut

PSLAB Beirut

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Detail of 'Blossom'

It was the 100% Design in London last year when the Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura sparked my intrest in her work for the first time. Then she presented her impressive chair ‘hechima 4′, a porous and light furniture – visually and physically. It is made of vulcanized fibres which are cut in a reticular and molded in a waved  structure.

Her newest project is ‘blossom’ the interior design of a restaurant in Nagano, Japan. Again Ryuji Nakamura presented with a very poetic concept.

'Blossom' by Ryuji Nakamura

Here in the words of the architect:

“I decided to use the light that entered by a window barely. I wanted to make one to pick up the moving light sensitively and amplify it. So I thought I could make the place people did not get tired even if it was the closed space.

The room is painted white. And metallic plates to have shape of flower painted white similarly are past. If the thickness is reduced, the warp by heat is caused because a metallic plate is cut by the laser. I made the warp intentionally by selecting the thickness where a moderate warp was caused. The part that has stuck to the wall and the part away from the wall come by pasting the warping flower to a flat wall. The part that stuck to the wall assimilates with the wall, and the part away from the wall throws a shadow out to the wall and makes the outline come to the surface. The number of flowers is about 12000.”

'hechima 4', presented at the 100% Design London, 2008

The 'insect cage' is made without a joint by rapid prototyping technique

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