Bohlin Cywinski Jackson touches up its design for Williamsburg’s Blue Bottle Espresso
Pale wooden decorates this Blue Bottle Espresso cafe in Brooklyn designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which the American observe has up to date to accommodate extra folks.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson created the Blue Bottle Espresso house in New York’s Williamsburg neighbourhood in 2017.
The agency was enlisted to return to the undertaking to make extra space for purchasers and lengthen the amenities, because the espresso store has grow to be well-liked since opening.
“Though it isn’t essentially our intuition to revisit a not too long ago accomplished undertaking so quickly, one factor that has made the collaboration between us and Blue Bottle so rewarding is their fixed drive to refine and ideal what they’re doing,” mentioned Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
Situated on the nook of Berry Avenue and North four Avenue, the espresso store options interiors meant to riff of the main points of the previous industrial house, comparable to concrete flooring and uncovered brick partitions painted white.
Slatted woodwork fronts a espresso bar and counter and matches the wood tables that furnish the cafe.
For the redesign, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson stored a lot of the undertaking the identical, together with the wooden element that wraps across the partitions.
The prevailing concrete flooring have been sealed for higher put on.
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The observe additionally up to date a number of the furnishings. Two lengthy tables exchange a communal desk, and a curvilinear wooden bar has been added close to the counter the place a smaller model beforehand stood.
Gray bar stools by Danish model Hay accompany each areas. White tables and chairs are additionally used.
The kitchen was additionally upgraded throughout the renovation, permitting the Blue Bottle Espresso store to broaden its food and drinks choices.
“The majority of the replace occurred at the back of home and isn’t seen to clients,” the agency mentioned.
The two,170-square-foot (201-square-metre) cafe is the most recent that Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed for Blue Bottle Espresso, which has expanded to nearly 100 outposts all over the world because it was based within the early-2000s.
Others embrace San Francisco cafe with comparable pale wooden interiors, as nicely places in Boston, Miami and Washington DC.
“Our designs concentrate on the expertise of espresso making and interplay with the barista: shops are uncluttered and all operations are in full sight, in order that the ‘efficiency’ of constructing espresso is front-and-centre,” mentioned the agency.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which was based in 1965 by Peter Bohlin and Richard Powell, can also be behind plenty of different tasks in Williamsburg, such because the Apple retailer on Bedford Avenue and a clothes retailer for Everlane.
Different Blue Bottle Espresso places are a restaurant in Seoul and one in Tokyo, each by Japanese studio Schemata Architects.
Pictures is by Daniel Lee.
Undertaking credit:
Shopper: Blue Bottle
Principal in cost: Tom Kirk
Undertaking group: Ryan Simpson, Sophia Lee, Daniel Stanislaw, Habeeb Muhammad, Nora Chase
Mechanical and electrical engineer: WSP
Structural engineer: Silman
Contractor: DCR NYC
Millworker: Okayama Works Inc