New Restaurant is a Swedish restaurant that is really, really determined to go green. This is like the European version of the North American Rain Forest Cafe.
Architectural firm Olssonlyckefors has created a jungle-like atmosphere complete with cascading walls of foliage, giving the New Restaurant a design to provide its patrons with an environment where they feel they have been magically transported to a tropical paradise.
Not an entirely bad idea for a place located in a country of perpetual winters.
We wanted a soft yet artificial, almost rendered, appearance; spatial contradictions; and a solution that’s like sitting on a porch in the garden,’ says Lyckefors. In the US, we have a silly place called “The Rainforest Cafe” that pretty much takes the same approach to dining, with the added elements of random tropical rain storms and animatronic gorillas looming just over head, growling at your poor eating habits. If we want happy, we take a pill.
(yankodesign)
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