Showing posts with label Punchbowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Punchbowl. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Punch Bowl Deconstruction


FINALLY!!! The space is being deconstructed and the demolition work has started. I tend to like seeing the space transformed from whatever the occupant was before, to a raw shell space ready for the new life. There is plenty of history with this location and I will detail in depth in the near future as the dust settles. Most of the historic images found for the location are of the east side of the street showing the current Hornet and Mayan Theater, but we found one image of the old Millers Grocery Store that is pretty cool. We will be attempting to bring the building back to the original brick facade that a Big Lots tenant had covered with a metal skin.
Sara preparing for our last presentation in the on-site war room.



Metal recycling underway!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Punch Bowl - Social Food & Drink

We've been making great strides with PBS lately. With our concept fully ironed out, we're very excited about the direction the design has taken.






Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Punch Bowl - Social Food & Drink



Develop a restaurant bar bowling lounge concept

Victorian NY Warehouse

create an aged, warm, refined, refurbished elegant (in sections) environment.

grand hotel / lodge - lobby / hall that's been remodeled 3 or more times over the years with layers of each decade exposed.

Build a simple, sustainable and comfortable lunch and dinner restaurant with various seating arrangements in a unique atmosphere.

Provide a PLACE

The EU... The Ace Hotel in Portland... The idea here is to create an aged, warm, refined, refurbished elegant (in sections) environment.

grand hotel / lodge - lobby / hall that's been remodeled 3 or more times over the years with layers of each decade exposed.

Some finish examples: concrete floors, some aged mosaic tile, some terrazzo, perhaps wooden planking and we'll use areas of the existing crappy looking flooring that's in there now.. Wall and furniture materials may have refined finished woods, red brick masonry, cinder block (if any exists already in the building) and some may have rustic plank wood. A combination of modern light fixtures and older used gooseneck canopies, etc., will be applied. Wherever possible under the current drywall we hope to find red brick masonry for added warmth and aging. The more scars we find the better.
Everything blends together rather than have complete themes in sections.
Layers is one of our key words - layers of time and materials, heavy action and reaction, upgrades and band-aids, styles and craftsmanship, layers of economy and social currents viewed through today's kaleidoscope.

materials and era landed firmer within the Victorian NY Warehouse category as our basis.

Create a concept that will instill a sense of community and connectivity. This one has to be in…Vaudeville Bowling... Furnishings in Bohemian Style Decorating