ASK Hertford by Gundry & Ducker

London studio Gundry & Ducker have added oak booths and stencilled tree-like graphics to the interior of an Italian chain restaurant in Hertfordshire, England.

Bauble-shaped pendant lights are clustered in each of the three dining rooms of ASK Hertford, two of which feature deep green walls.

Oak tables and chairs are either laminated or painted in green and white, arranged randomly around the restaurant.

Wine bottles displayed on the walls behind the wooden bar appear to have bright white shadows.

The restaurant is one of a few ASK outlets that the architects are upgrading.

You can see a couple more projects by Gundry & Ducker here, including a pub inside a cardboard box.

Photography is by Hufton + Crow.

Here’s some more text from Gundry & Ducker:

Ask Italian Hertford

As part of a major refurbishment program Gundry & Ducker were asked to re-design Ask Italian in Hertford.

The design is intended to create a warm and relaxed dining environment for both the evening and daytime, whilst maintaining a sense of the simple white restaurant interiors that typified Ask’s early restaurants.

The restaurant is sited within a sequence of interconnecting spaces, Victorian shop, covered courtyard & Edwardian showroom, which with their differing volumes together provide the framework for the design.

The first space is light and addresses the street, The floor is striped in contrasting grey tiles, bespoke pendent lights hang low over a mix of white and timber tables, projecting a silhouette onto the ceiling at night that are echoed on the walls. The openness of the space is contrasted with a sense of enclosure created by high backed benches, with rich green interiors and a new bar and back display.

The second space is a vertical volume with a vaulted ceiling and central lantern light. This dark green volume is dominated by the a chandelier, a version of the brass and glass bespoke lighting that runs throughout the restaurant, The walls are decorated with murals in light green inspired by the out line of trees, in turn influenced by the history of the town.

The third space, previously a draper’s showroom, is the largest and lowest of the three. Here the space is sub divided into “a space within a space”, where walls are cut away to form castellated screens and booths green on the insides, clad in oak on the outside.

Throughout the scheme the oak flooring is manipulated to form the furniture, turning the boards through 45° and up the face of key elements within the space. Interior reveals and lit elements are picked out in greens from a pallet that runs throughout the restaurant. The tabletops are a mix of sharp white and laminated timber the laminated chairs are finished in Oak and greens from the recurring pallet.

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Church in La Laguna by Menis Arquitectos

Completed in 2008 by Spanish architect Fernando Menis of Menis Arquitectos, the church comprises four chunky concrete volumes separated from one another by sliced openings.

Two overlapping cracks in the building’s end wall create a large cross-shaped window that is visible from within the nave.

Gabion walls inside the building also create partitions between rooms.

This is the second concrete church we’ve featured in recent months 

Photography is by Simona Rota.

Here’s some more text from Menis Arquitectos:

Church in La Laguna

This is a project located in the city of La Laguna on the Island of Tenerife. It is a place

that encourages reflection, a meditation space, an intrinsic space where a person of

any condition can go to find himself in the temple or join with others in the cultural

center.

The building exists as a large piece of concrete split and cut into four large volumes,

at these separations movement occurs. This space creates light, allowing to enter

and penetrating into the space, they exist as if to signify a higher meaning inspiring a

spiritual presence and sense of tranquility.

The building stands stark, stripped of superfluous elements that involve distractions far from its spiritual essence. The void has been sculpted to the same extent. The balance of proportions of void and building was vital to developing the identity of the project.

We chose to exploit the properties of concrete, based on its isotropic nature energy efficiency is optimized by the thermal inertia of the walls. The building also gets a better acoustics result; thanks to a combination of concrete and local volcanic stones called picón, which is chopped afterwards and acts as a rough finish that has a degree of sound absorption that is superior to conventional concrete.

Exterior, interior, structure, form, material and texture are joined inextricably by a complex study of the concrete.

The volumetric impact of the building and its use of essential materials, treating concrete as if it were liquid stone capturing waterfalls of light, create the temple while also optimizing economic resources. The space reflects timeless emotion.

Location: Los Majuelos, San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Use: Social Center and Church.

Site Area: 550 m2

Total Constructed Area: 1.050 m2

Cost: 600.000 €

Structure: Reinforced concrete

Materials: Reinforced concrete, local stone, golden sheet.

Status: completed Social Center (2005-2008); under construction Church (2005-..)

Client: Holy Redeemer Parish.

Architect: Fernando Menis

Office: Menis Arquitectos

Project Team: Maria Berga, Niels Heinrich, Andreas Weihnacht

Construction Management: Juan Bercedo, Maria Berga, Roberto Delgado, Niels Heinrich, Sergio Bruns (2006-2007), Andreas Weihnacht

Support Staff: Andrés Pedreño, Rafael Hernández (quantity surveyors), Pedro Cerdá (acoustics), Ojellón Ingenieros, Milian Associats, Nueva Terrain SL (services)

Construction: Construcciones Carolina

Client: Obispado de Tenerife

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