The Seed Luminaire my Btech Product

For par of this year we had to design a product that would go in one of our spaces i chose to do a luminaire that would go in my restaurant

The form of the light was inspired by the woody cup shaped top of an acorn. Inspiration was drawn from the woody “leaf” like forms that overlapping one another on the top of the cap. The concept and theory of biomorphsim influenced the form of the luminaire by abstractly imitating a element in nature.

monkey business

i have had many encounters with the nmmu monkeys in the architecture parking lot but todays encounter slayed me. I was running late for class so i grabbed a banana on the way out the door, this was suppose to be my brekkie. i pulled into varsity, parked and heard a group of people oohhhin and aaaahing at the baby monkey. with banana in hand i started making my way to class then WOMP! a mama monkey dropped from the tree's above right in front of me. Fight or flight instinct kicked in, it stared me dead in my eyes i clutched the banana tighter (was starving already), i was about to start hissing at it defending my nana when i heared WOM WOMP, two more monkeys had dropped in front of me, they started to close in. Fearing for my life i threw the nana at monkey number one and scurried off to class. i looked back and saw two more monkeys had joined the posse of three. Needless to say if i fought i would have lost that battle.

Patka restaurant by El Equipo Creativo

Local studio El Equipo Creativo reinterpreted traditional wooden Peruvian cloth-weaving equipment to create angled panels from thick threads stretched across wooden frames. Some of the frames are twined with white cords to contrast with the colourful sections.

 

Colourful strings are threaded around looms to envelop this Barcelona restaurant headed by Catalan chef Ferran Adrià (+ slideshow).

Local studio El Equipo Creativo reinterpreted traditional wooden Peruvian cloth-weaving equipment to create angled panels from thick threads stretched across wooden frames. Some of the frames are twined with white cords to contrast with the colourful sections.

The panels pass over the heads of diners who are served a fusion of Peruvian and Japanese cuisine at Patka, which means "union" in Peru.

NOMA Copengahan

Danish studio Space Copenhagen has overhauled the interior of Copenhagen eatery Noma, which was this year named "World's Best Restaurant" for the third time in a row.

"We felt a great importance in protecting the honest, earthy feel of the restaurant and balancing it with refinement of detail and elegance," explained designers Peter Bundgaard Rützou and Signe Bindslev Henriksen. "It was very much about using organic materials such as wood, stone, leather, brass and linen in a new way; materials that age beautifully over time."

Cornerstone Cafe by Paul Crofts Studio

Chevron motifs taken from military uniforms are interspersed around this cafe at London's Royal Arsenal Riverside by Paul Crofts Studio (+ slideshow).
London-based Paul Crofts Studio referenced the area's history of producing arsenal when designing the Cornerstone Cafe in part of a former munitions store.

"The warehouse building was part of a larger complex of munitions factories supplying all the armed forces during the First World War," Paul Crofts told Dezeen.

Created by tessellating wood and white solid surface tiles, the chevron patterns that cover one wall and the counter front are based on the V-shaped badges used on army and navy uniforms to indicate rank or length of service.

"The inspiration for the chevron pattern was derived from the insignia on military uniforms and the repetition of the pattern was inspired by archive photos showing the endless stacks of the munition shells," said Crofts.

Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant

Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant Interior by eins:eins Architects

The purpose of the newly-founded chain, nat. fine bio food, is to make fast food healthy, to offer delicious organic food in a timely manner – and this in a contemporary environment. nat. brings together Organic and Lifestyle, and with this follows the increasingly-important LOHAS-Trend (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability).

 The claim, “nature comes to the city” guided the design concept. Motives from nature were made so abstract that they can be only vaguely discerned. The ceiling allows association with cloud formations; the columns remind one of tree trunks; backlit walls dissolve the spatial boundaries through oversized, blown-up plantand herb-panoramas.

The main contradiction of a “natural” restaurant in an artificial urban environment becomes the core of the design. This is reflected in the contrast between natural form and disciplined, geometric abstraction, as well as in the coming together of nearly dematerialized and overly tactile, sensuous surfaces.

i love restaurant design!

i love restaurant design! my blog has shiftied into a blog that pays homage to well designed eateries ... a long love letter to all types of eateries from fine dining to cafe take away places, bars, pubs, pizzerias and so much more.


This is Mercato in Shangai

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has unmasked the I-beams structure of the oldest steel-framed building in Shanghai to create an Italian restaurant with a raw industrial interior

"Constantly playing the new against the old, [our] design is a reflection of the complex identity of not only the historical Bund, but of Shanghai at large," says the studio.