Coffee roaster Ozone has opened a new space inside an east London warehouse, featuring plywood interiors by local studio Box 9.
Box 9 has created custom tables and bench seating to complement the bright and airy aesthetic of the restaurant and roastery.
Located in Bethnal Green, it is the second venue that New Zealand-based Ozone has opened in London.
With space inside for 100 covers, it is designed to function as well for casual brunches as it does for nomadic workers. As well as the coffee roastery and kitchen, it also includes a pizzeria and a cocktail bar.
"Designed for the bruncher, first dater, creative worker, family catchup-er, meeting shaker, dog walker, holidaymaker, local morning walker or all the above, our new space is for everyone," says Ozone on its website.
Plywood was used to add warmth along one side of the space. It covers the walls and floors, and also forms the seating booths. These are embellished with spherical wall lights and forest green upholstery.
In the centre of the room, larger sharing tables are accompanied by Snøhetta's S-1500 chairs, which are made from recycled fishing nets.
A large lighting fixture creates a graphic detail across the exposed, white-painted ceiling, while tables are decorated with dried flower arrangements by artist Fran Newman Day.
A low partition, lined on one side by a brick bench, creates a partition between the eating area and the kitchen. Here, chefs prepare seasonal dishes with a focus on sustainability.
Counter seating gives some diners a direct view into the open kitchen, including the large wood-fired pizza oven.
There's also a small shop area, where Ozone is selling bags of its coffee alongside magazines and a few select products.
Ozone's first venue is on Leonard Street, also in east London. The new venue is about a mile east on Emma Street.
Other new restaurants that have opened in the capital this year include maximalist French eatery Bob Bob Cité and Asian-inspired venue Lucky Cat.
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Swedish studio Form Us With Love has designed a modular bench seating system for +Halle, which aims to create privacy in public without using walls or dividers.
The Levels benches come in three heights and three lengths that can be mix-and-matched to create seating for a wide range of indoor shared spaces.
With sitters positioned at varying heights and facing different directions, Form Us With Love (FUWL) said they wanted Levels "to create subtle divisions between people".
"We accept the fact that the ways in which people dwell within a space can be particularly divergent," said FUWL CEO Jonas Petterson. "A lot of the choices for taking respite are informed by the anxiety we all feel in a shared common space."
"The question then is, how might we create a concept that lets people relax within a dynamic convivial space?"
FUWL creative director John Löfgren said the seating would allow people "to take a mental minute" without closing off the space.
"The intention is not to prescribe the function of dwelling, but to suggest it through materiality, shaping, and compositions," he said.
The upholstered bench design is based on simple shapes derived from architecture. FUWL describe it as "two pillars supporting a beam".
Customers will be able to order the furniture as a single item – for instance spaces like the front of a shop – or in large configurations for offices or other communal spaces.
Furniture made by Danish design brand +Halle can be found at companies including Google, Bang & Olufsen, Heathrow Airport and Microsoft.
Levels is a product of the programme at +Halle's called Annual Briefing, which sees the brand bring together several design studios to answer the same brief and give each other feedback during the process.
The theme of this first brief was Dwelling and asked the designers to address the "deficit of moments to oneself in public spaces, and the human experience of seeking those moments out in the most public of places".
Along with FUWL, MSDS and Nick Ross are the other two studios who worked to the same brief and joined in the collaborative approach to ideation. Their two collections will be released in the coming year.
FUWL was founded in 2005. It has designed for +Halle previously, producing the slender-legged, club-style Nest seating in 2016.
Other projects from the Stockholm-based studio include BAUX's acoustic panels and the Odger sustainable chair for IKEA.
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Continuing our review of 2019, Tom Ravenscroft picks 10 architecture projects in the UK that made an impact in the past year, including a museum for boats and a football stadium.
The Weston visitor centre, Yorkshire, by Feilden Fowles
Architect Feilden Folwes designed The Weston as a visitor centre and entrance pavilion for the open-air Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in West Yorkshire.
The building, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, has two distinct faces, a concrete wall broken only by its entrance faces out towards the road while a largely glass facade faces the park.
Tintagel Castle Bridge, Cornwall, by William Matthews Associates
Working with engineers Ney & Partners, William Matthews Associates designed this 60-metre-long bridge to reconnect two parts of the ruins of Tintagel Castle in Cornwall.
The modern bridge replaces the original crossing that was built around the 16th century. It is built from two 30-metre cantilevered spans that have a 40-millimetre gap between them.
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Goldsmith Street, Norwich, by Mikhail Riches
This Passivhaus housing scheme by Mikhail Riches in Norwich made news this year when it became the first social-housing scheme to win the RIBA Stirling Prize.
The development, which consists of 105 terraced houses, was designed to be a high-density alternative to building high-rise apartment blocks.
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Windermere Jetty museum, Lake District, by Carmody Groarke
The Windermere Jetty museum opened its doors in England's Lake District this year.
Designed by London studio Carmody Groarke, the museum on Windermere lake houses an internationally significant collection of boats in a group of copper-clad sheds.
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House Lessans, Northern Ireland, by McGonigle McGrath
Belfast studio McGonigle McGrath designed House Lessans in rural Northern Ireland using simple details, materials and construction methods to keep costs down.
The home was named RIBA House of the Year 2019 with RIBA president Alan Jones stating: "House Lessans demonstrates that life enhancing architecture does not have to cost the earth".
Mackintosh's Hill House, Helensburgh, by Carmody Groarke
To protect one of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh's best-known buildings, London studio Carmody Groarke has enclosed it within a transparent shed.
Called the Hill House Box, the temporary shed is made from scaffolding and chainmail. It will protect the building during its renovation and incorporates an elevated walkway so that visitors can see the house from a new perspective.
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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, by Populous
Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur opened its 62,062-seat stadium in north London this year.
Designed by architect Populous, the stadium has a retractable grass pitch, which can be removed to reveal an artificial surface that can be used for playing American football.
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Hoxton Press, London, by Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects designed a pair of hexagonal, high-rise towers close to the Dezeen offices in Hackney, London.
Built as part of the redevelopment of the Colville Estate, the red-brick, 16-storey tower and 20-storey, brick-grey tower will contain a total of 198 homes.
Maggie's Cardiff, Cardiff, by Dow Jones Architects
This year Dow Jones Architects became the latest architect to design a cancer-care centre for the Maggie's charity.
The temporary Maggie's Centre at the Velindre Cancer Care Centre in Cardiff was built in place of a permanent building that was initially proposed for the site. The care centre, which is entirely in weathering steel, cost around one third of the proposed budget for the permanent building.
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Collective, Edinburgh, by Collective Architecture
In Edinburgh, Scottish studio Collective Architecture has converted the William Playfair-designed City Observatory on Calton Hill into a contemporary art centre.
Named Collective, the art centre occupies the former observatory with buildings containing new gallery space, a restaurant and welcome kiosk, added to the hilltop site.
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