| Now&Zen | |
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The most advance techniques of glazing make it possible to bring all the light and view into the restaurant through the façade and pavement. The structural glass front includes the first frameless glass revolving door ever built. Inside the three floors are made to seem as one with big elements stretching right through the whole restaurant, the most spectacular being the glass dragon waterfall which starts at the roof and drops through three floors to the basement. The chairs were designed especially for the restaurant by Rick Mather. The site started as a most unpromising concrete shell with an almost unusable basement. Reinforced concrete walls and floors were removed and a whole new steel structure inserted to create the completely new curving mezzanine, and to open up and combine the basement with the two floors above into one big space. |
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| Press | |||
| AJ
Focus |
Zen
and the art of glazing |
Susan
Dawson |
April
91 |
| The Independent | Zen
and the art of cool |
Emily
Green |
23 Feb 91 |
| Interior
Design |
Though
the looking glass |
Gaynor
Williams |
April
91 |
| Diseno
Interior (Spain) |
Restaurante
Now & Zen - una revision de los primeros modernos |
Berta
Blasco |
Sept 91 |
| RIBA
Journal |
Zen
and the Art of Restaurant design |
Carl
Gardner |
July
91 |
| Interiors
(USA) |
A
Zen dragon |
Justin
Henderson |
April
92 |
| Baumeister | Zen
- oder die Kunst mit Strabchen zu essen |
S
A S |
Jan 92 |
| Client | Zen Restaurants | ||
| Location | Covent Garden London | ||
| Completed | January 1991 | ||