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    Shifting Tides: H R, N Y, USA LTL A

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    The document summarizes an honourable mention restaurant project called Tides Restaurant. It notes that while fit-outs are often temporary with muted styles, the jury was intrigued by the ambition of the ceiling design for this small project. The ceiling design featured over 120,000 bamboo skewers suspended in an inverted acoustic topography to mediate the disproportionately large space. The ceiling brought attention to an often overlooked element and helped create a softer acoustic environment and greater intimacy for the small restaurant.

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    The document summarizes an honourable mention restaurant project called Tides Restaurant. It notes that while fit-outs are often temporary with muted styles, the jury was intrigued by the ambition of the ceiling design for this small project. The ceiling design featured over 120,000 bamboo skewers suspended in an inverted acoustic topography to mediate the disproportionately large space. The ceiling brought attention to an often overlooked element and helped create a softer acoustic environment and greater intimacy for the small restaurant.

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    The document summarizes an honourable mention restaurant project called Tides Restaurant. It notes that while fit-outs are often temporary with muted styles, the jury was intrigued by the ambition of the ceiling design for this small project. The ceiling design featured over 120,000 bamboo skewers suspended in an inverted acoustic topography to mediate the disproportionately large space. The ceiling brought attention to an often overlooked element and helped create a softer acoustic environment and greater intimacy for the small restaurant.

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    Fit-out is a curious architectural

    medium. Often temporary,


    materially thin, and stylistically
    over-egged, it is the more muted
    and restrained interiors that
    usually attract recognition.
    It came as somewhat of a
    surprise, therefore, that this
    years Jury decided to give this
    small project, Tides Restaurant,
    an honourable mention.
    Little was known about the
    restaurants genre; even less
    was revealed about the spatial
    layout. Quite simply, it was the
    sheer ambition of the ceiling
    that intrigued the Jury.

    HONOURABLE MENTION
    RESTAURANT , N EW Y ORK ,
    USA
    ARCHITECT
    LTL A RCHITECTS

    1
    Looking from the
    kitchen toward
    the street, Tides
    Restaurant
    features a new
    type of suspended
    ceiling.

    In commercial fit-outs, ceilings


    often suffer great disservice
    as the forgotten elevation.
    Services coordination is easily
    overlooked, and materials rarely
    deviate from dry lining. Smoke
    detectors, light-fittings and
    sprinklers compete in misaligned
    unresolved grids, despite the
    fact that when seen through
    brightly-lit shop windows, free
    of merchandise, people and
    clutter, the ceiling is often the
    most prominent surface. Here
    then, the designers invested
    a great deal of time in the
    consideration of the ceiling,

    providing an inverted acoustic


    topography that helps mediate
    what they considered to be an
    inappropriately proportioned
    space for a small intimate
    restaurant. With over 120 000
    bamboo skewers (cut into three
    standard lengths), perhaps the
    only reservation was that this
    idea could have been taken even
    further. R.G.
    Architect
    LTL Architects, New York
    Project team
    Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David Lewis
    Photographs
    Michael Moran

    SHIFTING
    TIDES
    The designers of this
    New York restaurant
    sought acoustic softness
    and spatial intimacy.

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