Now&Zen  
 

 

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.

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