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Competition entry / Croatia (Hrvatska), City of Zagreb Green Pavillion Restaurantby 3LHD -
Completed / United Kingdom, Camberwell Frank’s Café -
Built / Italy, Venice Illy Push Button Houseby Adam Kalkin -
Competition entry / Korea (South), Buan-gun Saemangum Exhibition Centerby poly.m.ur -
Built / United Kingdom, London The View Tube Café -
Built / United States of America, Tukwila Drive Thru Starbucks at Tukwila -
Competition entry / Spain, Sevilla Café Cultural en el Polígono Sur -
Completed / Sweden, Stockholm Café Foam -
Completed / Finland, Helsinki Johan & Nyström Concept Store -
Completed / Japan, Dazaifu Starbucks Coffee at Dazaifutenmangu Omotesando
This competition winning design combines art and commerce to bring life to a new public space in the multi-million-pound Bullring development by the Birmingham Alliance.
The building form is inspired by the 13th century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci who identified the natural patterns of growth found throughout the universe, from the shapes of sea shells and pine cones to fractal patterns within galaxies. Illustrated graphically, the sequence forms a graceful spiral. The shape of the Café was derived from extruding this ‘golden’ spiral along a tilting axis to form a simple curved enclosure.
Like a shell, the exterior of the cafe is rough, rugged and durable patinated copper, whereas the inside is smooth and precious and lit by pearl-like glass spheres. The café was completed in October, 2004 to a wealth of positive press:
“It is common for regeneration projects to be enlivened by the commission of artworks and sculpture. The new cafe may not have been commissioned as an artwork but it certainly gives the same pleasure.” - Architects Journal 2004
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Stephen ward commentedSadly the Spiral cafe is no more. The building has been demolished so as to allow the building of three new restaurants.about a year ago via Mobile
