Designed by Iranian architecture practice OJAN Design Studio, Character Café & Gallery is located next to one of the main streets of Mehrshahr in Alborz province, with the area of 530 square meters. This old building was a two-storey construction with poor infrastructure, a complex plan and numerous arched openings.
Project name
Character Café & Gallery
Architecture firm
OJAN Design Studio
Location
Character, Masih Pakdel Blvd., Shahrdari Blvd., Mehrshahr, Alborz, Iran
Photography
M. H. Hamzehlouie
Principal architect
Ojan Salimi
Design team
Ali Merati, Saber Tajik
Interior design
Ojan Salimi
Collaborators
Eghbal Amin Khaki
Civil engineer
Alireza Safavieh
Structural engineer
Ali Merati
Environmental & MEP
Keivan Tavakoli
Construction
Majid Reza Salimi, Alireza Safavieh
Material
Concrete, Iron, Wood, Stone, Glass
Client
Eghbal Amin Khaki, Mohammad Shojaie Bakhsh, Hossein Shojaie Bakhsh
Typology
Restaurants › Cafe
Designed by Kyiv-based design studio YOD Design Lab, Samna is a restaurant of Middle Eastern cuisine in the author’s interpretation by famous Israel chef Meir Adoni. The venue is located in the historic part of Kyiv, next to Arsenalna square.
Architecture firm
YOD Design Lab
Location
6, Ivana Mazepy st, Kyiv, Ukraine
Photography
Andrey Bezuglov
Principal architect
Volodimyr Nepiyvoda, Dmytro Bonesko
Design team
Volodimyr Nepiyvoda, Dmytro Bonesko, Alexandr Kravchuk, Serhiy Andriyenko, Masha Draga, Nataliya Babenko, Gleb Melnik, Yaroslav Pavlivskiy
Interior design
Yod Group
Collaborators
Nikolay Kabluka (light), Vladyslav Ogirenko (kitchen technology), Stepan Tsutsman (bar technology), Avk Top Metal (copper works), Stalkon (steel works), Tiger (printing on glass), Complex-V (sound)
Material
Copper, solid oak, leather, and steel, glass
Client
IAMTHE restaurant chain
Clayton Korte: Eberly, inspired by sources both humble and lofty, marries a former 1970s print shop building with a salvaged bar from the storied Cedar Tavern in New York’s Greenwich Village to create a sophisticated bar, cafe and restaurant in central Austin.
Architecture firm
Clayton Korte
Location
Austin, Texas, USA
Photography
Merrick Ales and Chloe Gilstrap
Principal architect
Paul Clayton
Design team
Paul Clayton, Sam Manning
Interior design
Mickie Spencer
Collaborators
Kitchen Designer: N. Wasserstrom & Sons. Permit Expediter: McClendon and Associates. Steel Work in Study: Steel House MFG
Civil engineer
Longaro & Clarke Consulting
Structural engineer
JM Structural Engineering
Environmental & MEP
Bay & Associates
Construction
ICON Design + Build
Typology
Restaurant, Cafe, Bar
Designed by Ukrainian studio YODEZEEN architects, Bar³ is a new restaurant and bar in a residential area of Kyiv, created according to the principle of genuineness.
Architecture firm
YODEZEEN Architects
Photography
Andrii Shurpenkov
Principal architect
Artem Zverev, Artur Sharf
Interior design
YODEZEEN Architects
Design team
Artem Zverev, Artur Sharf, Artem Voskoboinyk, Anya Tarabanova, Olga Kravchenko, Liubov Tuzovska, Vitaliy Korzh
The Takamatsu-based architecture firm Keita Nagata & Architelements has designed Usagi-an (rabbit hermitage) a restaurant for local production and consumption, located in Ayauta town kurikumahigashi, Marugame city, Kagawa pref., Japan.
Architects statement:
Rabbit’s dwelling. Mud Dumpling ma...
Czech interior design studio Komplits has designed a steak restaurant in a former car repair shop, embracing the automobile heritage of the place.
The STK Restaurant authentically engages individual elements of its past through the materials and design elements, merging the heavy elements with na...
Damir Ussenov and his architectural company Lenz Architects designed and built the modern restaurant of fine French cuisine “Dijon” in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The primary idea of the project is a harmonious combination of tenderness and brutality, airiness and massiveness, minimalism and glamorous fusion.
Project name
"Dijon" Restaurant
Architecture firm
Lenz Architects
Location
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Photography
Sergey Krasyuk
Principal architect
Damir Ussenov
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
The Sofia-based architectural firm Delinear Ltd has designed "Kapka" an award-winning concept design for a restaurant lift line in the city of Sofia, going up to the TV tower on Vitosha mountain.
Project description by the architects:
The project was conceived a few years ago while rethinking...
