Café
A neighbourhood café conceived as a series of intimate marble-and-brass rooms knit together by planting and ribbon-pendant light. The building reads as a single material gesture from the street; inside, each space is sized for a different scale of company.
The plan resolves around a single long bar of dining, interrupted by service cores and a glazed kitchen edge. Banquette seating runs continuously; intimate nooks are carved out of the bar with brass screens and planting.
Material decisions begin and end with dark veined marble. Brass lanterns light the entry portal, brass screens divide the nooks, brass profiles edge the bar — one warm metal across the building, one stone family beneath it.
Lighting is the loudest move. Black ribbon-pendant fixtures swim above the main hall; an organic white-pendant cluster gathers over the secondary room. The ribbons read as a long horizontal line from the street, a single calligraphic stroke through the cafe.