Galvin La Chapelle, LONDON
Lead designer // designLSM
Category // Independent restaurant
The Restaurant and Bar design Awards were announced in London two weeks ago and although this yearly event is only two years old, there was an immense amount of entries from 38 countries making it a young success. The entries are judged by a highly regarded panelists in hospitality and lifestyle sectors. The list of projects demonstrates the energy and innovative culture that is permeating worldwide and the introduction of many young firms making a statement in the world of design. Many winners from London, a great project in India and our good friends from Sebastian Mariscal in the USA.
Galvin La Chapelle, LONDON
Lead designer // designLSM
Category // Independent restaurant
The winners in each category are the following:
Independent Restaurant: Galvin La Chapelle (London), designLSM
Multiple Restaurant: Canteen (London), In-House Design
Independent Bar or Club: theCUT (Newcastle), Julian Taylor Design Associates
Multiple Bar or Club: Bangalore Express Bar (London), Outline
Restaurant, Bar or Club in another space: Urban Reef (Boscombe), Macaulay Sinclair
Restaurant or Bar in a hotel: Elliot’s (Edinburgh), Ian Springford Architects
Café or Fast Food: Outsider Tart (London), David Lesniak
Identity & Website Design: The Draft House (London), Studio Frith
Lighting Scheme: Sound (Thailand), Inverse Lighting
International Restaurant: Pio Pio (New York), Sebastian Mariscal Studio
International Bar: TheTote (India), Serie Architects
The Tote, INDIA
Lead designer // Serie Architects
Category // International bar
The Tote, INDIA
Lead designer // Serie Architects
Category // International bar
Sound, THAILAND
Lead designer // Inverse Lighting
Category // Lighting scheme
Sound, THAILAND
Lead designer // Inverse Lighting
Category // Lighting scheme
Elliot's, EDINBURGH
Lead designer // Ian Springford Architects
Category // Restaurant or bar in a hotel
theCUT, NEWCASTLE
Lead designer // Julian Taylor Design Associates
Category // Independent bar or club
Outsider Tart, LONDON
Lead designer // David Lesniak
Category // Cafe or fast food
Bangalore Express Bar, LONDON
Lead designer // Outline
Category // Multiple bar or club
Pio Pio, NEW YORK
# Lead designer // Sebastian Mariscal Studio
Category // International restaurant // photo © a r c h p h o t o
Canteen, LONDON
Lead designer // Canteen (In-house design)
Category // Multiple resta
Urban Reef, BOSCOMBE
Lead designer // Macaulay Sinclair
Category // Restaurant, bar or club in another space
photo (c) Cinimod Studio
The "connected" environment
In a bid to increase networking at it's awards event the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards commissioned Cinimod Studio to create an effective and visually stimulating solution. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology was used to identify key visitors on the two 'networking pods' during the evening's proceedings. The tags embedded in shortlisted designers and sponsors' name badges used radio signals to send their identity to antenna receivers. Projections then highlighted guests' key professional characteristics (eg. projects designed, sponsor brands etc.) as they moved around the pods. The Awards was the first event that combined this technology to create a uniquely 'connected' environment.
photo (c) Cinimod Studio
Audialsense complemented the visual experience with an experimental use of interactive spatialised sound. With a series of discrete loudspeakers located around the site, the RFID badges of the guests were used to identify the eventual winners as they moved through the space. These ‘special’ guests then triggered the system into grabbing samples of the background music, breaking it up, and sending the resultant sound spiralling round the room, resulting in bursts of cracking static and broken, but recognisable sounds. This process gave everyone else at the awards event a strong audial clue as to the winners' identities - even before they themselves knew who had won.
(left) photo (c) Cinimod Studio, (right) photo (c) Philip Vile
Centrally located in each networking pod, special interactive tables created by Core Web Design completed the overall experience. Using ultra thin JVC screens, Core Web Design used the latest interactive technology to effectively communicate details of projects and sponsors to the event’s guests.
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