James Resturant by Noel Lane Architects

ArchiPro Project Summary - A classic restaurant design featuring a striking blend of masculine elements and delicate textures, with a leather-wrapped bar, high ceilings adorned with layered curtains, and a thoughtfully partitioned layout that enhances the dining experience.

Title:: James Resturant
Architect:: Noel Lane Architects
Category:: Commercial/; Hospitality
Building style:: Classic
Photographers:: Simon Devitt Photographer

By Rowe Baetens Architecture in association with Noel Lane Architects A black low ceiling with leather walls and furniture were chosen to create a strongly masculine room that is minimalist and modern in detail. A long bar wrapped in leather with inset black granite traverses the length of the room and a serving counter of similar detail partitions the room to the kitchen behind.

The white and high ceiling volume is much more open with layers of double height curtaining. These curtains form an enclosure within the hard roughened concrete shell. The silky red curtain introduces layers of translucency and opacity between tables and groups of diners.

Detail and furniture is chosen to be much more light, transparent and delicate. The sensuality of the materials and textures are deliberately associated with the distinctive rooms as are the colours and surface qualities that activated by filtered or diffused light.

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Noel Lane Architects

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Auckland Central, Auckland

Noel Lane Architects. Noel Lane Architects continues to research lifestyles and their related environments of work and leisure. Our aim is to observe astutely and correspondingly develop individual appropriate design solutions. We see the visibility of the director and his ongoing conceptual input on all projects as an important responsibility in building the integrity of the practice. We are committed to the professional execution of our designs in complete contract terms and ensure our practice is structured formally to perform and deliver its client promises. We see ourselves as clearly offering a service product and consider the client relationship of paramount importance. The client’s satisfaction is directly related to an ongoing involvement in the project and we accept a firm responsibility in ensuring a high degree of orderliness in this regard. Constant liaison with Project Co-ordination Engineers, Quantity Surveyors and Structural Engineers at all critical stages in our projects ensure performance to realistic budget and time restraints Noel Lane Architects are actively involved in domestic and commercial commissions specialising in one off individual projects. We do not seek the “Avant Garde” as our signature but rather that our designs should meet peoples’ needs in a practical and aesthetic way and at all times give a sense of understandable joy to the occupier of the spaces created.