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Baba Cool
Baba Cool
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
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Baba Cool
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
Collaborator: Le Whit
For Brooklyn café Baba Cool’s second location, we designed a fluid program to accommodate transitions between coffee in the morning, and bar and restaurant in the evening. The plan is structured as a sequence of spaces that increase in intimacy from front to back. A lounge at the entry leads to bar seating and a central dining nook, with a more enclosed formal dining area in the rear. Our seating designs orient around necessary upgrades to ADA accessibility standards throughout. Materially, custom millwork reinforces a sense of continuity, from new exterior windows and doors to the substantial curved banquettes shaping the seating areas.
The café’s warm, French-Moroccan identity led our other core material selections. Concrete, stained wood, and rough-applied mint paint add texture and a sense of naturalness, in contrast to a memorable, more contemporary high-gloss painted ceiling and aluminum-wrapped bar top. The brightened façade is washed in the same mint color, reinforcing continuity and subtly nodding to the green tiles of neighboring Brooklyn Academy of Music. The project was successfully expedited on a quick, 2-month timeline, on time and in-budget for the opening.
For Brooklyn café Baba Cool’s second location, we designed a fluid program to accommodate transitions between coffee in the morning, and bar and restaurant in the evening. The plan is structured as a sequence of spaces that increase in intimacy from front to back. A lounge at the entry leads to bar seating and a central dining nook, with a more enclosed formal dining area in the rear. Our seating designs orient around necessary upgrades to ADA accessibility standards throughout. Materially, custom millwork reinforces a sense of continuity, from new exterior windows and doors to the substantial curved banquettes shaping the seating areas.
The café’s warm, French-Moroccan identity led our other core material selections. Concrete, stained wood, and rough-applied mint paint add texture and a sense of naturalness, in contrast to a memorable, more contemporary high-gloss painted ceiling and aluminum-wrapped bar top. The brightened façade is washed in the same mint color, reinforcing continuity and subtly nodding to the green tiles of neighboring Brooklyn Academy of Music. The project was successfully expedited on a quick, 2-month timeline, on time and in-budget for the opening.
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