A Permanent Sunset Crowns Plutarco’s Myo Hand Roll Bar in Madrid.Golden hour never ends at MYO. In Madrid's ChamberĂ, Plutarco have engineered a permanent sunset—a warm, backlit glow that crowns the bar and refuses to fade. Raised on an oak platform and finished in nori-green stained wood, the bar is...
Per Cent’Anni: Pattern Studio’s Restaurant Built for a Hundred Years of Happiness.Pattern Studio sits firmly in my pantheon of favourite Australian practices, and Moby's Whale Beach is exactly why. A 60-seat Italian restaurant and downstairs wedding venue inside the 1937 Whale Beach Surf Life Saving Club, this is design...
Alan Prekop Turns a Bratislava Heritage Space Into an Imagined Italian Terrace.This restaurant in Bratislava doesn't try to look Italian—it tries to feel Italian. Alan Prekop's concept inverts the spatial logic of the interior entirely, transforming the dining room into an imagined terrace in the narrow streets of...
Inside Marlowe, J.AR OFFICE Lets a Heritage Brisbane Building Do the Talking.Jared Webb has a particular kind of creative intelligence that's hard to articulate—the sort that pulls together unrelated genres, eras and references into something that transcends the sum of its parts. Something we now lazily shorthand...
A 19th Century Pub Transformed into Seven Layers of Atmosphere.Eleisha Gray's creative direction of The Waterside Hotel is rooted in production design thinking—atmosphere and sequence first, materials second. At Past/Port restaurant, colour became a shared language between Executive Chef Sarah...
Bar Monte Newstead is Studio Plenty’s Moody Ode to Post-War Italian CafĂ© Culture.Bar Monte Newstead by Studio Plenty is a moody, laneway-set Italian venue in Brisbane's inner suburb of Newstead. Drawing from post-war Italian cafĂ© culture and the geometric clarity of Italian Rationalism, the studio has layered spotted...
MA Studio’s Timber-Clad Bistro Blends Nostalgia with Saudi Hospitality.Juno Riyadh’s interior is anchored by an elongated timber volume that houses waiter stations, art nooks, and a glowing pizza oven. Poured terrazzo flows through the main dining space, while dark cement tiles signal a shift to cosier...
Helsinki’s Boreal Restaurant Channels Finnish Forests Through Timber, Art and Kombucha.Boreal restaurant lands in Helsinki's Design District with interiors by Treivas Architecture Bureau that channel Finland's northern forests. The space wraps an open kitchen in timber framing, fills walls with Scandinavian art, and features...
MillĂł Restaurant by AÉ02 Features a Show-Stopping “Volcano of Light” Ceiling.Bucharest's dining destination transforms a 500-square-metre ground-floor space into a study of geometry and light. Architects Anda Zota and Elena Viziteu created a dramatic ceiling installation that anchors the main dining area, while...
