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Diners are transported to mid 20th-century Bombay at this restaurant in a former railway transit shed close to King’s Cross station in London (+ slideshow).
Like the first two of Shamil and Kavi Thakrar’s London restaurants, the third Dishoom pays homage to the Irani cafes that sprung up around Bombay – now Mumbai – during the first half of the 20th century.
The Thakrars modelled the new restaurant on a “godown” – or warehouse – they imagined behind the Indian city’s Victoria station. An Irani immigrant set up an makeshift stall there in the 1920s that grew into a popular cafe during the period of the Indian Independence Movement.
The aim was to recreate the atmosphere of that story in a section of warehouse behind Central Saint Martins art college, and to continue the legacy of the handful of these cafes that remain in Mumbai.
With the help of interiors studio Macaulay Sinclair, the cavernous space was broken up into a series of levels that create over 830 square metres of serving and dining space, for up to 250 covers.
“We looked at the space and thought about how we could break it up architecturally to make it more homely,” Shamil Thakrar told Dezeen.
The building’s original brickwork was retained where possible, while other walls that were previously painted white have been treated to look distressed.
A steel mezzanine was added to create more floor area, maintaining the sense of height and views of the pitched roof from the entrance, but also adding more intimate dining areas.
The new horizontal steelwork bridging the old structure and the new platform carries the services and provides the framework for suspended lights.
This upper level houses the open kitchen and a small amount of seating, with monochrome furniture matching the floor tiles.
Other original tile patterns taken from references in Mumbai are laid across the entrance level, where a book kiosk from the city’s main rail terminus has been replicated and used to form a juice bar.
“To someone who grew up in Bombay, this would look weirdly familiar,” said Thakrar. “There’s an enormous amount of detail here.”
Slogans and posters relating to the independence movement are written across the walls, accompanied by a collection of the Thakrars’ black-and-white family photos.
The owners and the designers embarked on two trips to India to find inspiration and to source over 100 antiques to furnish the space with.
Items they brought back include a porcelain wash basin, room dividers and a pair of scales, which are carefully placed around the space. A replica of the clock that hangs in Victoria station is suspended above the staircase.
On the raised podium beneath the balcony, some of the restaurant chairs are made from repurposed second-class railway seats. Other furniture pieces hark back to Bombay’s Art Deco heritage. “Bombay is the second most Deco city in the world after Miami,” explained Thakrar.
Towards the back of the building, a double-height dining area for larger parties features an oval-shaped table surrounded by photographs depicting key moments in India’s move away from British control.
This area is accessed by a corridor that wraps around the edge of the building, overlooking the floor below.
The basement, which formerly housed the building’s stables, is now a bar called the Permit Room – a reference to the permit required to purchase and consume alcohol in Bombay.
Dark wooden furniture sits on the original cobbles, providing space for up to 92 drinkers to sample the selection of Bombay-influenced cocktails.
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A skeletal framework that can be covered with screens or climbing plants extends from the gable end of this house in rural Spain, designed by architects Anna and Eugeni Bach (+ slideshow).
The MMMMMS House was designed by Barcelona-based Anna and Eugeni Bach for a new development on the outskirts of the village of Camallera, where local planning regulations dictate that properties must incorporate characteristics typical of traditional rural architecture.
The architects were intent on finding an alternative way to implement the regulations calling for the use of stone cladding, pitched roofs and small windows, which they feel result in “new buildings that look like fake rural houses” and “do not help the landscape”.
“Our project follows the regulations but instead of leading the looks into a rural traditional house, we tried to lead it to another type of rural construction – the farm warehouse – which is much more logical when it is close to the villages and in semi-dense areas,” Eugeni Bach told Dezeen.
To fulfil the requirement to use stone on the building’s facades, which the architects considered an outdated and expensive material for construction, it was applied as a non-structural vertical cladding around the exterior.
At one end of the home, the pitched roof profile is translated into a framework that extends over a large terrace described by Bach as “the heart of the house and where most of the activities will take place”.
Sliding doors allow the main lounge on the ground floor to connect with the terrace, which provides space for outdoor dining under a cantilevered balcony that projects from a living area on the first floor.
“The idea for this porch is that the clients will tune it however they want,” added Bach, suggesting that the structure could be covered with climbing plants or rolling wooden screens to become a more shaded space.
A bench set in a frame-like opening is incorporated into one side of the structure and the architects propose that plants could be allowed to grow around it so it becomes “a hole from the inner porch through the vegetation to the garden outside.”
The majority of the building’s exterior is clad in brick that has been painted white but left without any stuccoed or rendered finish to display its true materiality.
The use of brick continues internally, where it is left exposed on load-bearing walls and hidden behind a layer of plaster on non-supporting walls. “It is as if the building is explaining its own logics,” Bach suggested.
The property’s interior references an expansive shed within which the bedrooms, kitchen and bathrooms are accommodated in separate box-like spaces that reference storage containers.
These smaller boxes are intended to provide more intimate environments, while the circulation spaces around them offer views through the house that enhance the relationship between indoors and outdoors.
Double-height spaces with clerestory windows emphasise the sense of openness within the living areas, while metal frames that project out from the exterior walls accommodate large windows and shutters that enable natural light and air to reach the interior.
As well as the exterior porch and first floor balcony, several other smaller decked areas – such as one connected to a playroom between two bedrooms on the ground floor – provide further outdoor living spaces.
Photography is by Eugeni Bach.
Project credits:
Architects: Anna & Eugeni Bach
Collaborators: Eulàlia Cudolà, quantity surveyor; Carina Silva, Sara Matías, Albert Cabrer, architects; Masala consultors, structure.
Constructor: Calam-Tapias Construccions
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Stockholm 2015: Oslo studio StokkeAustad has combined colourful textiles with a selection of shinier materials to create acoustic panels that feature geometric patterns (+ slideshow).
StokkeAustad, the team led by designers Jonas Ravlo Stokke and Øystein Austad, designed the panels for 130-year-old Scandinavian textile manufacturer Gudbrandsdalen Uldvarefabrikk (GU).
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The designers chose to use a selection of different fabrics, and combined these with various other materials including mirrors, polished brass and Norwegian stone.
“Although the materials GU produces are of very high quality, they can be perceived as a bit flat in their texture and sheen, since they are all made from wool and viscose,” explained Jonas Ravlo Stokke.
“That’s why we placed them together with other shinier materials, and put strong colours next to each other.”
“We also find that the qualities of the different textiles are more easily evaluated when placed close together,” he added.
The composite panels come in three sizes, and there are five different patterns to choose from.
Each one sits within a pine frame, which has been treated with lye and pigmented oil to “enhance the experience of the textile”. According to Stokke, they can be placed on the floor or hung on the wall.
StokkeAustad will present the acoustic panels at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair, which opens on Tuesday. Other products designed by the studio include a collection of decorative blown-glass trees and a range of kitchen utensils.
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