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1998 |
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unbuilt |
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new york, ny |
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restaurant |
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This prototype restaurant for a national chain was conceived so that the primary programmatic elements can be configured flexibly, depending on the site conditions. The program includes a large waiting hall, bar, dining, possible private dining room, with rear kitchen and service areas. Functional adjacencies and the use of materials produce a stagelike atmosphere and cinematic sequence related to the owner’s brand.
The dividing surface between the waiting area and the bar/dining areas was broken into frames, and a unique new material involving glass filament laminated in glass, allowing for a clear view only when looking straight ahead and a blurred view if looking on angle to the surface of the glass, was incorporated to enhance the voyeuristic and film quality of the spaces. The visitors can watch and in turn can be watched. Alongside the waiting area there is a large Rauschenberg-like box filled with film-star paraphernalia and reflecting back the opposing framed surface brings a surreal quality to the event. Video cameras project images of people caught in the between spaces, and motors were placed in all surfaces including floors and walls. Floors and walls are saturated with video screens continuously playing movies.
The walls behind the restaurant and the bar are backlighted in repeated floral patterns as an homage to Warhol and alluding to techniques of film editing. The flower images involve photos by Karl Blossfeldt, the German naturalist and photographer credited with introducing images from the scientific world as art.
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