The Cave Restaurant by Koichi Takada Architects
Koichi Takada Architects have completed the Cave Restaurant in Sydney, Australia.

Description from the architects:
We aim to change the way we eat and chat in restaurants. The acoustic quality of restaurants contributes to the comfort and enjoyment of a dining experience.
We have experimented with noise levels in relation to the comfort of dining and the ambience a cave like environment can create. The timber profiles generate a sound studio atmosphere, and a pleasant ‘noise’ of dining conversation, offering a more intimate experience as well as a visually interesting and complex surrounding.
The series of acoustic curvatures were tested and developed with computer modelling and each ‘timber grain’ profile has been translated and cut from computer-generated 3-D data, using Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology.
Visit the website of Koichi Takada Architects – here.
Photography by Sharrin Rees
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BahayKubo on 06 Apr 2010 at 5:54 am #
someone has done this concept before
MyDS on 06 Apr 2010 at 5:57 am #
WOW!
Dave on 06 Apr 2010 at 6:10 am #
BahayKubo, you are probably thinking of the Banq restaurant by Office dA.
http://www.officeda.com
Flaneur of Boston on 06 Apr 2010 at 6:26 am #
Exactly, there is a restaurant in Boston just like that.
BahayKubo on 06 Apr 2010 at 6:46 am #
Oh yeah, the office da. Tnx Dave
B. Clyde Beck on 06 Apr 2010 at 10:15 am #
Hey! Someone else is on the same page I have been on for twenty years!
My restaurant designs have taken this acoustic stuff seriously whenever I have a educable or listening client. They may not have been as wildly fanciful as this but they are definitely distinctive in acoustic quality of actually hearing your table companions, not hearing someone several tables away.
juliette on 06 Apr 2010 at 2:22 pm #
office da ripped it off graft
Kylie on 06 Apr 2010 at 4:49 pm #
That’s our local Sushi Train in Maroubra. Excellent food and love being in the “whale’s belly”.
Peter on 07 Apr 2010 at 4:08 am #
1975!
http://www.zenth.dk/research/makovecz/Farkasret/farkasred.htm
Andy on 07 Apr 2010 at 4:52 am #
Where is this place? I can’t seem to locate it
Dave on 07 Apr 2010 at 4:57 am #
The restaurant is located at 944 Anzac Parade in Maroubra.
Victor T on 28 Apr 2010 at 12:04 pm #
oooooooh. Neato! Very cool. How can one resist not going inside of here?
Argee on 19 May 2010 at 7:41 pm #
It gives off a great warm cozy dining feeling.What kind of wood was used?