Bars & Restaurants (Architecture Now!)

About this book

Cutting edge architecture while you sup and dine The latest architecture and design of restaurants and bars from L.A. to Tokyo is the focus of this book. Whether the challenge is merely placing furniture in a simple space or an ambitious structural project restaurants and bars are the sites of our most expressive architecture; more ephemeral than larger facilities or entire buildings they are more apt to capture the mood of the times. From a skyscraper rooftop in Bangkok to a beachfront in Brazil here are places where design architecture food and drink come together in inspiring combinations ranging from minimalist to extravagantly Baroque. Designed and conceived like the enormously successful Architecture Now! books this publishing milestone identifies the current trends bringing architecture and design together in new and exciting ways. Featured architects/firms/artists: 3deluxe-biorhythm Architectuurbureau Sluijmers en Van Leeuwen Architrave Assadi Pulido AvroKO Barkow Leibinger Architekten Bel Lobo & Bob Neri Arquitetos Christian Biecher Buchner Brndler Architekten Arthur Casa CL3 Concrete Electric Dreams Elenberg Fraser Stuart Forbes Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas GCA Arquitectes Gilles & Boissier Stephanie Goto Graft Guedes DeCampos Zaha Hadid Jeppe Hein Hosoya Schaefer JakobMacFarlane Johnsen Schmaling Architects SFJones Architects Jouin Manku Marcio Kogan Kengo Kuma Christian Liaigre MAKE Architecture Maurice Mentjens Metro Arquitetura Simone Micheli Moon Design Office dA Katrin Olina OlssonLyckefors Arkitekter Pacific Environments Pentagram Pierluigi Piu Studio Arne Quinze Imaad Rahmouni Karim Rashid Thilo Reich/Tran Mai Huy-Thong ROBERTNEUN Serie Philippe Starck Super Potato Tidy Arquitectos Marcel Wanders Isay Weinfeld Wonderwall/Masamichi Katayama Yabu Pushelberg Cate Young