2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Sala Sala Japanese Restaurant
A quintessential Japanese dining experience is created through the simple and direct spatial arrangement of a limited palette of materials and colours, in which light bamboo, dark-stained timber, stainless steel, Perspex and glass feature as the main elements. A low floor-to-ceiling height is treated cleverly as a dark plane for the main space, with further lowering at the continuous kitchen-dining interface. The success of the space is attributable to the handling of this interactive edge between the dining counter and the main kitchen, with careful detailing given to the counter, cooking area, extraction detailing, and glass backdrop wall. The discrete lighting of the ceiling edges and under-counter further enhances the Japanese ambience and aids the transformation of this formerly small domestic room into a generous restaurant space.
- Practice
- Herriot Melhuish O'Neill Architects
- Category
- Interior Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
