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Architecture studio Michaelis Boyd has introduced touches of brass and geometric pattern to a listed church in London to create a 1960s-inspired home for Cantonese eatery Duddell’s.
The restaurant was founded in Hong Kong in 2013 as a dining destination for people with an interest in the arts and culture, and has two stars in the influential Michelin Guide. It has now opened a branch in Southwark, set within a Grade II-listed church.
Much like its Hong Kong counterpart, Duddell’s London will act as a restaurant and gallery space, displaying collections of contemporary art pieces.
While the original branch was designed by Studioisle, for this intervention Duddell’s charged Michaelis Boyd with creating the restaurant’s interiors.
Influenced by the bold aesthetic of traditional Hong Kong tea rooms from the 1960s, the practice went about creating a retro space with touches of pattern and colour.
“We wanted to capture the spirit of the original Hong Kong restaurant but present it in a completely different way,” practice co-founder Alex Michaelis told Dezeen.
The restaurant’s largely white ground floor centres on the former church alter and features four arched windows.
Opposite lies a freestanding volume clad in sea-green tiles with a contrasting pink terrazzo countertop, which plays host to the dim sum kitchen and cocktail bar. Brass has also been used to craft shelving for drinks and overhead lighting.
The architects have installed rhombus-patterned rubber flooring at a raised level to protect the building’s original parquet, which in some areas has been left exposed. Dark oak panels that run around the perimeter of the room have also been preserved.
“A big part of the project was restoring the building to its former glory – the design seeks to show a clear distinction between what is old and what is new, which I think works particularly well in this monumental space,” said Michaelis.
Seating is provided by a bright blue banquette thats runs along a rear wall, and black rattan chairs.
Extra dining space is offered up on the mezzanine level, which is fronted by a glass balustrade so that guests can glimpse out over the restaurant.
To counteract the building’s lofty ceilings and create a more intimate setting the architects also chose to suspend oversized chandeliers with gold cylindrical pendants.
Based in London’s Notting Hill, Michaelis Boyd has previously teamed up with Soho House to turn a run-down farm in Oxfordshire into members-only guest accomodation. The practice are also behind the design of New York’s Williamsburg Hotel.
Photography is by Ed Reeve.
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Did you spot our April Fool story earlier today? Here’s a roundup of other spoof stories we’ve run over the years, including bread-shaped skyscrapers and a hotel on the moon.
The first day of April is traditionally a day for playing practical jokes, and people who fall for them are called April Fools. But its not just April 1 when prank stories can make the news…
Private Crossrail station planned underneath Adjaye-designed London house
On April Fools Day two years ago we teamed up with photographer Ed Reeve to falsely claim he was about to get a private tube station beneath his David Adjaye-designed house.
Many readers were taken in, with one commenting: “I told everyone in my office about this and why it would never work… Now I feel slightly silly.”
Richard Branson launches plane-shaped skyscraper and moon hotel
On 1 April 2014, Richard Branson unveiled a range of unlikely looking architectural projects, including a hotel on the moon that looked suspiciously like the cover artwork of Mike Oldfield’s 1973 Tubular Bells album – the record that launched Branson’s Virgin label.
Bread-shaped skyscrapers planned for London
The same day, we unveiled sensational plans for two London skyscrapers in the shape of slices of bread. Located either side of the Gherkin, they would create a new ensemble known as “the ploughman’s lunch”.
Unsurprisingly most readers saw through this one. “I hope people don’t think this is half-baked thinking, and make a whole meal out of it,” commented one.
Serero Architects to add giant platform to the top of the Eiffel Tower
Dezeen itself has been the victim of a couple of “fake news” stories. In 2008, we ran a story about Eiffel DNA, a competition-winning proposal by Serero Architects to redesign the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
It turned out the project, and the competition, were both made up. Other major news outlets including the Guardian also fell for it and since the story emerged a week or so before April Fools Day, our phoney-story radar was not operating at full strength.
Bio-Customised Sneakers by Rayfish made of patterned stingray skin grown to order
In 2012, we reported on a range of sneakers made from bio-engineered stingrays, which could be bred with skins of any imaginable pattern. This wasn’t an April Fool prank but a coordinated attempt “to catalyze a debate on emerging biotechnologies,” as the instigator later explained.
We suspected at the time that Rayfish was a made-up company, but that didn’t stop its trainers being shortlisted for a design award the following year.
By the way if you didn’t guess already, today’s spoof story is this one. Read all our April Fool stories.
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A concrete staircase overlooked by a glazed showroom and library forms the centrepiece of this headquarters for a textile brand in Mumbai designed by SJK Architects.
The offices for Synergy Lifestyles are housed in a former warehouse in the mill area of the Indian city’s Kalachowki neighbourhood.
It was one of the first industrial buildings in the neighbourhood to be converted into offices when local office SJK Architects designed the original interior in 1997.
The initial design utilised the existing pitched roof and introduced skylights to bring daylight into the voluminous space. But in 2015 a fire destroyed most of the interior and required the building to be rebuilt from the inside.
Following the fire, the outer shell remained intact and was retained, but an existing mezzanine was removed along with portions of the roof and a suspended wooden staircase.
The original design focused on lightness and spatial continuity, which are qualities that are retained in the reconfigured interior.
A new staircase that cascades down through the centre of the building echoes the previous design, and creates a focal point for the project around which the rest of the spaces are arranged.
“The staircase has moved to centre stage physically and connects every other functional space like a courtyard,” architect Namita Kara told Dezeen.
“With this avatar of the project, space and light were the key protagonists and we stripped away all other thoughts and materials to retain this essence.”
The central “courtyard” area is illuminated from above by new skylights that extend along the length of the space, whereas the previous ones ran width-wise along the trusses.
The staircase is anchored to the ground and the metal structure of the upper level. A wide landing at the midpoint required additional support so it is suspended from one of the roof trusses.
Studio spaces, workrooms and offices on both levels are enclosed behind glass partition walls that maintain a visual connection between the various departments and allow light from the central atrium to reach these peripheral areas.
Whereas the previous design featured plenty of vibrant colour, the renovated space employs a more muted palette that allows the company’s bright textiles to stand out.
The architects created a predominantly grey box that provides a neutral backdrop and focuses attention on the architectural features and honest surface finishes.
The exposed mild steel column-and-truss structure was stripped back and painted black to emphasise its geometric lines.
Rough concrete walls introduce a distinctive patina, while wooden surfaces and a tiled floor add instances of warmth and pattern to the space.
Photography is by Rajesh Vora.
Project credits:
Architecture: SJK Architects
Design team: Shimul Javeri Kadri, Vaishali Shankar, Roshni Kshirsagar, Michelle Pereira, Nikita Shahdadpuri
Structural engineers: Unique Concrete Technologies
Interior contractor: M/s Nirmaan
HVAC consultant: Rumi H Bharucha Consultants
HVAC contractor: Space HVAC Systems
Electrical contractor: SEW Engineering
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Cheetah jumps inside vehicle during African Safari! Seattle man survives close encounter with cheetah during African Safari. Cheetah jumps into man’s jeep during safari.”Alex (My guide) kept me calm and made sure I never made eye contact nor startled the cheetah,” Hayes said, “allowing the animal to see that it could trust us.”Hayes said his group was focusing on a separate cheetah that had jumped on the hood of their SUV, when the other cheetah jumped in the back seat.Jaffe said her son didn’t tell her about the close encounter until he got back, worried she would have freaked out!..(Read…)
Les passionnés de triathlon peuvent se réjouir, la célèbre marque de voiture ultra-sportive Lamborghini et la marque référence Cervélo constructeur de vélo triathlon s’unissent pour créer et produire le P5X Lamborghini Edition. Un vélo créé pour les coureurs, pour les sportifs de haut niveau. Il allie une aérodynamique ultra-poussée étudiée au millimètre par Cervélo (plus de 180 heures de test en soufflerie).
Naturellement, la petite touche Lamborghini se retrouve sur le vélo par la signature de la marque, la numérotation du modèle et par le motif en Y jaune sur fond noir, un motif bien connu des partisans de Lamborghini.
Il faudra cependant débourser 20 000 $ pour acquérir l’un de ses 25 vélos au design d’exception.
Le Bruton Stroube Studio de St Louis, Missouri a créé une série visuellement frappante mettant les cocktails à l’honneur et leur donnant un air de Renaissance. Le projet, intitulé Classical Cocktails, met en vedette des Bloody Marys, des Lime Rickeys, des Sangrias et des Bellinis vus sous forme de tableau. Tchin-tchin!
Photographer and idea man: Greg Stroube
The Studio: Bruton Stroube Studios in St Louis Missouri, USA
Digital Artist: Jordan Gaunce and Sierra Myers
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