Angeli Restaurant

Posted: Mar 30th, 2009 / Last Edited: Jun 1st, 2010 Print

Description

A partial gridwork was added to the façade of a building on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles as an inexpensive way of making and marking an addition. The façade was meant to appear as if it predated the existing building. By using minimal means, it creates a series of shifts in foreground/background meaning. The interior of the restaurant seats forty-five in two sections, with a bar and kitchen toward the rear. Entry to the first part of this two-phase conversion covering two stores is through a door which has been suppressed and made invisible from the façade. All one sees from the street is a series of planes and a beam penetrating the outside wall from the inside.
A partial gridwork was added to the façade of a building on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles as an inexpensive way of making and marking an addition. The façade was meant to appear as if it predated the existing building. By using minimal means, it creates a series of shifts in foreground/background meaning. The interior of the restaurant seats forty-five in two sections, with a bar and kitchen toward the rear. Entry to the first part of this two-phase conversion covering two stores is through a door which has been suppressed and made invisible from the façade. All one sees from the street is a series of planes and a beam penetrating the outside wall from the inside.
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