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Project information
Designer: Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
Program type: Restaurant
Project budget: N/A
Project Address:
785 Ninth Avenue, at 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Designer analysis
Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL) have establish a strong reputation by designing inventive restaurants throughout New York City. The firm is known for their uncommon but highly creative use of materials from budget limitations and working with odd floor plans due to restricting space limitations. LTL explore space and surface with a modern, energetic perception giving each space a new and unexpected feel.
Project analysis
Design analysis
LTL's design for Xing, a Pan Asian restaurant in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, is no exception to their unique and captivating design skills. The 2,000-square-foot restaurant is located in a street-level space previously occupied by a delicatessen and a studio apartment behind it. “The floor plan, typical in New York, was barbell-shaped, in which the middle is a bottleneck resulting from light wells placed on each side of the tenement building,” explains design partner David Lewis. “Rather than force a design that would hide the distinction between the front and back, the approach was to accentuate the unique nature of each space.”[1] Xing is a compilation of four distinct yet connect areas each defined by a specific material.[2] The materials are composed of stone, bamboo, and acrylic each forming their own space while interlocking with the other.
Detail analysis
One of the main features in Xing is the wrapping illuminated acrylic structure that stretches the length of the restaurant. The bar is made from 10,000+ linear feet of stacked 1/4" colored acrylic. It wraps from the counter surface up to an illuminated dropped soffit and then back down again to make walls of the corridor. Fluorescent strip fixtures illuminate through the acrylic soffit which is suspended from the ceiling by cable rods. A clear glass top was placed as the countertop of the bar to protect the stacked acrylic surface. The base is made of plywood wrapped in stainless steel, this adds a crisp reflective edge to the structure.
From front to back, patrons move through these areas wrapped with hard surfaces (wood and stone) from the most public vantage points toward softer surroundings (fabric) within the most intimate dining space at the rear.[3]
References
Notes
- ↑ http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/interiors/archives/0603xing.asp Architectural Record, By William Weathersby, Jr.
- ↑ http://www.ltlwork.net/pages/portfolio/projects/xing.html LTL website
- ↑ http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/interiors/archives/0603xing.asp Architectural Record, By William Weathersby, Jr.
Student contributions
- Alison Smith, Spring 2008
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