Online Architecture Travel Guide
Text description provided by the architects. Site context and design prototype EL 16.52 is a coffee shop located off the coast of Songdo, Busan, South Korea. EL stands for altitude above sea level, and 16.52 signifies an altitude level of the underground floor where the main building was built. The […]
Text description provided by the architects. Black Butte Ranch – an iconic resort community located near Sisters, Oregon – sits at the gateway to Oregon’s high desert. First planned in the early 1970s, the Ranch is a vacation destination for many, and a year-round home for some. The new 15,000-square-foot […]
Text description provided by the architects. Dornbirns’ ‘house mountain’ The Karren, is the most popular destination in the city. Due to the steady growth of domestic and foreign visitors, the capacity of the restaurant slowly became overwhelmed. Jointly developed with the client, the owners, the business manager and the Architects […]
Text description provided by the architects. The empty and forgotten semi-basement space in the 19th century Ljubljana corner building, which faces the riverside and a rarely frequented stairs-street, housed diverse ventures in the past, from a local butcher shop to a wholesale wine store. Instead of a dull list of […]
Text description provided by the architects. A new age Indian sweet and confectionery shop, where a French bistro meets an English patisserie. In India, traditionally consumption and gifting of sweets or “mithais” are symbolic of celebration. It has a deep-rooted association with auspicious events and is an indispensable part of […]
Text description provided by the architects. The Klotski is a three-story, mixed-use infill building situated in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Close to downtown, the area is noted for its dynamic mix of commercial, manufacturing, and residential uses. Reflecting the eclectic vibrancy and gritty nature of the neighborhood, the 10,041-square-foot […]
Text description provided by the architects. Wolf is a 4,000-square-foot, 90-seat restaurant in the Flagship Nordstrom department store in mid-town Manhattan, New York, operated by the Seattle-based restaurant group, Ethan Stowell Restaurants. It’s located three floors above the street in the corner space of an old brick building that Nordstrom […]
Text description provided by the architects. Design and project documentation of a restaurant designed within the premises of the Benedictine monastery in Broumov, which belongs to the national cultural heritage of the Czech Republic from 1995. ADR architectural studio has been participating in the gradual renovation of the Broumov Monastery […]
Text description provided by the architects. The Schwabing district of Munich is well-known for its vibrant street life by day and by night. Young people in particular love the cosy atmosphere the district has to offer. Within this setting, we have realised a »café/bar« concept for NEW ERA COFFEE, which […]
Text description provided by the architects. Local cultural aficionados already know and love the Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg for its vibrant music, dance and theatre programme. DANZA is a restaurant that joins the ensemble following a thorough renovation of its gastronomic offering, skilfully picking up on the existing mood […]
Text description provided by the architects. The new wine bar is located in the former winery premises. We are carving large openings situated opposite one another to open up the views. We are adding an all-glass, oversized bay window where one can relax with a glass in hand. We are […]
Text description provided by the architects. Walking down the Dukelských hrdinů Street to the Veletržní Palace, an inconspicuous play of light and shadow of a haiku, casted by the sun through the shop windows into the interior, encourages one to stop and think. Zpomaluji krok přijdu mnohem později avšak vidím […]
Text description provided by the architects. New building of a micro-brewery in Most. A brick veneer building with a restaurant and an outdoor seating. The Most Micro-brewery follows on from our existing micro-brewery projects of Hostivar 1 and 2, Trautenberk and Spojovna. These were designed by the studio for a […]
Text description provided by the architects. Mountain ski restaurant Raduša is located at the top of the beautiful Raduša mountain range in central Bosnia, at an altitude of 1720 meters. Conceptually, it is based on the idea of a mountain pavilion – viewpoint, located at the ski resort, in the […]
Text description provided by the architects. Rather than being concerned with achieving a certain aesthetic, the creative process behind the new space for the ‘Shedia’ street magazine was instead focused on its ability to serve as a fascinating socio-cultural catalyst. From the very beginning, this pro-bono project was driven by […]
Owners Joe Sundberg, Rachel Johnson, and Patrick Thalasinos have opened their second restaurant on a small neighborhood street in Seattle. Rupee Bar, a follow up to the trio’s well-regarded restaurant Manolin-also designed in collaboration with Heliotrope Architects-was built entirely by the owners themselves. Inspired by the owners’ journeys […]
Text description provided by the architects. The original assignment was to transform the vaulted interior of an Old Town house into an inviting and cosy place dedicated to the exquisite taste of natural wines. In other words, to fit the purpose of the Autentista Wine Bar. Mr Bogdan Trojak and […]
Text description provided by the architects. Sedici is a restaurant located in the province of Naples. Its atmosphere expresses a contemporary taste, with simple shapes and clean lines. The slab floor looks like a single carpet; even with a clear industrial appeal, it reestablishes a strong modern declination in the […]
Text description provided by the architects. With ‘Object Campus – City of Visions’, carpet supplier Object Carpet has built a temple to the concept of networking: Companies from all sectors and the whole region come together here, creating vital cross-industry synergies. The centerpiece here is La Visione, an Italian restaurant […]
Text description provided by the architects. In August 2013 the City of Amsterdam gave the go-ahead for the redevelopment of an old store room under one of their offices on Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam into a multifunctional plaza. This plan is part of the new flexible housing concept for their offices, […]
Text description provided by the architects. An old industrial warehouse of 1100m2, at one of the most beautiful spots along the Amsterdam waterfronts, was transformed by CUBE architecten and SOLUZ architecten to an attractive café and the biggest fish restaurant of Europe. STORK RESTAURANT is one of the pioneers in […]
Text description provided by the architects. The Espresso Bar Unterberger is located in the middle of Feldkirch’s old town in an Art Nouveau building from 1905. It sees itself as a public space in an urban structure with generous openings towards the guest garden or pedestrian zone. The central position […]
Text description provided by the architects. For years now, the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Watersport (Flemish Aquatics Association) was in dire need of a new clubhouse. The club received a 27 year concession for the lot at the end of the Oude Wenduinse Steenweg and the Bevrijdingsplein, between the former sluice […]
Text description provided by the architects. The young architectural firm derksen|windt architecten created the design for this striking cafeteria, which lies in its surroundings as a stopping place in an environment dominated by industrial activity. The design for the new Cafeteria is based on a contemporary fusion of American 50’s […]
Text description provided by the architects. In southern Styrian Vogau the brothers Erich and Walter Polz had the idea to enlarge their wine logistics center including a shop and a vinotheque that have been successful for years, and turned it into a center of selected culinary quality products from all […]
Text description provided by the architects. This project is the result of some unconsciousness mixed with a lot of admiration and also the izakaya project for the Can Kenji team. Which one is our Japan? It is the videogames and the lights of Tokio, the Japan of Frank Lloyd Wright, […]
Text description provided by the architects. In Viaduct Arches, the architects at first examined the ability of an infrastructure element that is a protected monument to be programmed and make part of the urban system. Also, they tried to resolve how low-budget projects can be carried out in an era […]
Roadside restaurants are not found very often within the increasingly prestigious restaurant world. Such places have a superposed condition as an infrastructure adapted to the commercial, informational and social […]
Text description provided by the architects. Tori Tori Restaurant is considered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Mexico City with remarkable success. Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio teamed up to move the restaurant to a bigger location in the same area of Polanco, Mexico City. At the residential area […]
A lush botanic garden is housed at the great natural entrance to the Caves of Hams in Mallorca. It is at this entrance that the bar is situated and made up of a piece of backlit glass of 10 meters in length. The most important element of the project is the counter of the bar that fits into a concrete cavity made up of straight lines […]