The scheme is located at Union Square, Embassy Gardens, and is a 400 sqm A1/ A3 Ground Floor unit adjacent to the American Embassy building and the new Nine Elms Linear Park.
Located on a prominent urban corner, the design concept proposes an interior extension of the streetscape that is articulated by a brick clad bar front and floor that winds through the L-shaped floor plan, uniting the two distant ends. The design seeks to animate the corner plot and to invite the outside in, and to offer a unique internal experience that fluctuates between open space, private space and visible storage (typified through inclusion of a visible keg room).
The material language of the space draws inspiration from hard and soft boundaries that are typically juxtaposed within the urban realm: the design is characterised by hard surfaces such as brick, blackened steel and polished plaster set against softer fabrics, planting and warm oak linings throughout.
A fundamental ambition for the project was to create a space with an strong visual identity that is multi-functional and that can become a destination at Embassy Gardens, also promoting a stronger cohesive local community asset.
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