Native structure studio Bench Structure has topped a Brooklyn brewery with a pizzeria and bar outfitted in a “colourfully tactile palette” together with a wall of aqua-blue tile.
In East Williamsburg, Lala’s Brooklyn Apizza store is positioned above the Grimm Artisanal Ales brewery – a transformed car store that opened in 2018 and was additionally designed by Brooklyn-based Bench Structure.
The second-floor pizzeria consists of a big open area flanked on both aspect by a pizza kitchen and terracotta-clad bar, whereas a collection of bi-fold doorways lead out onto a rooftop terrace.
“A colourfully tactile palette was used to border two poles of the area,” the studio stated.
The area sits on high of a transformed autobody store At one finish of the inside area, a pizza oven is surrounded by gentle inexperienced Portuguese tile, whereas a white mosaic tile was used to clad the oven itself. A bar counter topped with moonstone and wrapped in corrugated wooden frames the oven, with a small service window lined with the identical moonstone positioned to the aspect.
Throughout the area, a service bar was wrapped in fluted terracotta tiles and topped with a darkish gray Mexican Cantera stone counter.
A wall of aqua-blue concrete tile sits behind the bar, extending alongside the area and outdoors onto the terrace.
Magenta-pink curtains line the again wall and a wood-slatted ceiling connects these two bars, which the studio refers to as “nodes”. The 2 counter tops had been designed to have contrasting materiality.
“These ‘tough’ and ‘polished’ nodes are unified by a curved wood-slat ceiling and magenta curtain which accent major surfaces in addition to soften the acoustics of the area,” stated the studio.
An angled mirror was positioned above the curtain and spans its width to visually join the inside area to the terrace, in keeping with the studio.
Outdoors, the terrace is flanked on each side by partitions of sunshine pink and blue tile, with a Cantera stone flooring overlaying the whole thing of the area.
Easy wood picnic tables populate each the inside eating space and outside area, with shelving and a rack of firewood dispersed round them.
Bench Structure expanded upon related themes it used for the brewery and taproom on the bottom flooring under, which opened in 2018.
Comparable red-hued curtains line the area and a corrugated metal-clad bar was positioned alongside the constructing’s entrance home windows to supply area for brewery manufacturing.
A collection of pendants grasp from the ceiling, which marks an unique mezzanine design for the area.
“A grid of hanging pendant lights create a ‘ceiling’ to the area, which outlines the extent of the unique mezzanine design for the room, which was outmoded by the rooftop extension,” stated the studio.
Bench Structure is a Brooklyn-based structure studio based by David Bench in 2020 that makes a speciality of residential, retail and occasion areas.
Different inside tasks just lately accomplished within the Williamsburg space embody a residential loft that doubles as a efficiency area and a Kith retailer that includes a brick silo at its centre.
The pictures is by Nicholas Venezia
Mission credit:
Structure and interiors: Bench Structure
Development supervisor: Bench Structure
MEP: ABS Engineering
Structural: Becker
