![]() Photo: Eugeni Pons.Ĭoffee shop in Strasbourg, France by Dominique Coulon & associés There is no furniture included, and the designers say circadian lighting combined with a curated selection of beverages served in custom-designed ceramic ware energize customers welcomed by a floor-to-ceiling glass facade.Ĭoffee shop in Strasbourg, France by Dominique Coulon & associés. Torontonians will quickly enjoy a "caffeinated" space achieved through the careful placement of interlocking pieces of light and dark wood that produce a highly-contrasted tessellation that expands and contracts. Here again, this small, 300-square-foot café is aimed at pedestrians in a hurry and uses 1,300 modular panels and interlocking marble segments to stimulate the experience of its users. Milky’s in Toronto, Canada by Batay-Csorba Architects Milky’s in Toronto, Canada by Batay-Csorba Architects. ![]() About 80% of the space is derived from reused construction materials taken from a previous dismantled project. A suspended tangerine-colored metal staircase leads from the front service area to the upper-floor working space, which comes with a careful arrangement of nooks, handmade furnishings, and plant life selected to mitigate the humidity created by the roasting process. Located in Prague’s developing Karlín district, this 120-square-meter (1,291-square-foot) shop was designed to include an inner room used for barista education workshops, competitions, and its own in-house roastery and related storage needs. GROUNDS in Prague, Czech Republic by KOGAA GROUNDS in Prague, Czech Republic by KOGAA. Seating arrangements are further designed to increase the sense of fluidity, and high-end Corian finishes on the counters and facade are used to make the overall design as inviting as possible. Its design offers horizontal composition as its base orientation, with a sculptural 9mm-welded-steel tunnel-like fixture serving as a buffer zone between its counter and entry portal. Woah! This optic-white outpost of the award-winning Japanese brand is itself an excellent blend of Japanese, French, and Chinese cultures. % Arabica store in Chengdu, China by ARCHIEE % Arabica store in Chengdu, China by ARCHIEE. Have you designed a space that should be showcased on Archinect? Additional projects can be considered via our submission form. ![]() Here are some of our favorite examples of coffee houses, cafés, and other highly-caffeinated spaces that provoke that sense of good design, with a brief comment as to what makes them so addicting. In 2018, we launched our Brutal line of varietals on the notion that good coffee, just as the imperiled architectural style says of "good" design, can be boiled down to what Archinect founder Paul Petrunia calls a "raw materiality, with a timelessness and strength that doesn’t rely on ornamentation or trends to stand on its own." As they relate to architecture, coffee shops can serve up equally eye-opening parallels. In terms of their intellectual history, spaces such as the Odeon in Zurich, New South Wales’ Lincoln Coffee Lounge, and New York’s Hungarian Pastry Shop have been the forums from which movements like Dadaism and the Sydney Push, as well as books like The Buddha in the Attic and Between the World and Me, can be traced. The advent of remote work has meant an increased role for coffee shops and their owners as the damage done by pandemic restrictions recedes, and digital commuters turn to their grindhouses for a sense of structure, social opportunity, and even belonging. October 1st is International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we’re taking a look at some superlative projects that showcase the unique qualities and considerations involved in the design of different cafés across the world.
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