Category Archives: Restaurants & Bars

The Kontum Indochine Café was designed by the practice of Vo Trong Nghia Architects with fifteen conical bamboo columns supporting the roof, a shape which is representative for the Vietnamese fishing baskets. The project is located at the Kontum Indochine Hotel in the central Vietnam and it functions as the restaurant and banquet hall of the hotel providing open-air dining with a great view of the Dakbla River and the mountains. The roof of the restaurant has layers of thatch…

The Prahran Hotel in Victoria, Australia is actually a corner pub which was designed by the practice of Techne Architects in 2013 and it features a vintage art deco façade. The original structure was proportioned in an inefficient manner and the clients wished it demolished and replaced with a double height space that also was able to host a central courtyard. The designers opted for the concrete pipes in the façade in order to increase the interactivity and aesthetic of…

The Gaga deli, coffee shop and eatery located in Shenzhen, China, was renovated by the interior designers and architects of Coordination Asia and their aim was to provide an interior in which the feeling of space is essential, creating a link between the indoors and the outdoors. The ceiling is reminiscent of sunrays and is decorated with custom made lamellas which extend on the walls and create the shelves on which the merchandise is exposed. The color palette of the…

The Ingfah Restaurant was designed by the design office of IF (Integrated Field co. ltd.) and it features an outdoor seating restaurant which specializes in the local cuisine and is located in Khaolak, Phangnga, Thailand. Since the location of the restaurant was surrounded by buildings and thus offered no view the designers had a new idea for dining, namely sitting or lying down. This is actually quite an old Thai dining habit and thus it was a good idea to…

The architectural practice of YUNAKOV designed the Beton Restaurant in Kiev, Ukraine with a style that resembles an apartment and has modern industrial elements such as the concrete structures and surfaces that predominate along with rusted metal and glass. The lobby tries to be an introduction to the overall theme of the interior and it is designed as a composition of horizontal concrete signboards and vertical stele made of rusted metal. This area leads to the four zones that the…

The Frankfurt Station was designed by the interior design studio Denys and von Arend and it is located in Barcelona, Spain. Completed in 2013, the space features a linear geometry with a platform and a wagon. The sidebar is also the place where the counter is located and it displays the products available. The rear dining area tries to resemble the seating in a train with double seats facing one another across the table with a window that has a…

The polish architectural practice of Wamhouse designed the Stolarnia club and restaurant which is a part of the Ubojnia & XII collection, namely the sixth item in it. This collection consists of twelve thematic interior designs that try to combine art and design to create some highly original sets of furniture and fittings. The restaurant features a truly original and impressive interior that tries to create an ambiance that is reminiscent of the gloomy cartoons of artists like Tim Burton,…

The ABC bar-club is the transformation of the “Lumen” historical theater and cinema balcony into a new club with an opening toward the D! club main space concert hall and it was designed by the architectural practice of SAS (Specific Architectural Solutions). The project is located in Lausanne, Switzerland and the cinema opened here in 1908 to become the “ABC” in 1935 having one of the largest screens in Europe at the time. Much later, in 1998 the cinema was…

The architectural practice of AAMD designed the Eskada Club Porto in Portugal taking inspiration from the newest trends in night club design from places like LIV in Miami, the Allure in Abu Dhabi, the Mokai in Sao Paulo or the VIP Room in Saint-Tropez. The project has each room designed with its specific features to provide a unique blend which hints toward the vintage, the present or the future. A lot of materials and textures were used in the design…

The Don Café House is located in Pristina, Kosovo and it was designed by the practice of Innarch with a stylish design that combines the classical techniques with the modern ones to offer a warm and welcoming space that is perfectly suited to its purpose. The predominant color is the one of the sacks which hold the coffee grains with walls organically shaped and made from plywood with pillars coated with actual textile coffee sacks. The tables and the hanging…