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San Francisco, CA, United States
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City Counter
San Francisco, CA, United States
City Counter is a new luncheonette in San Francisco, CA inspired by the classic American lunch counter, which finds its architectural heritage in the train car dining rooms of the 1930s. These long, narrow spaces gave rise to the lunch counter, an efficient single surface creating areas for both food preparation and dining. This new restaurant model encapsulated the energy and fast curvature of the late Deco movement, and created an expression of technology, efficiency, and modernity - the perfect place to both celebrate and take respite from the everyday hustling of contemporary life.
City Counter's 60-foot wraparound counter, in addition to being the historical reference for the food and service concepts, is also a multi-functional architectural feature which organizes the circulation of the space, houses all of the MEP infrastructure, and hosts all of the dense daily programs that are required in a lively lunchtime restaurant.
The counter is built in two overlapping layers. The inner ring is service-oriented, built in durable Corian and tile, and hosts the storage, food preparation and packaging, and areas for ordering and take-away. The outer ring, a structural screen of powdercoated steel tubing, supports the presentation functions of display and dining service on a floating polished stone counter. The repeated linear elements and simple geometry of the screen recall the deep Deco roots of the diner typology, while creating a transparency between the people on either side of the counter.
Guests enter City Counter through a historic brass door boasting the name of its original tenant, Standard Oil. Brass hardware and lighting fixtures are introduced throughout, including simple opalescent globes along the windows, and inverted counter-mounted pendants to mark the areas for ordering and pick-up. Custom benches with brass trim with line the windows to animate the storefront view from the street.
City Counter's 60-foot wraparound counter, in addition to being the historical reference for the food and service concepts, is also a multi-functional architectural feature which organizes the circulation of the space, houses all of the MEP infrastructure, and hosts all of the dense daily programs that are required in a lively lunchtime restaurant.
The counter is built in two overlapping layers. The inner ring is service-oriented, built in durable Corian and tile, and hosts the storage, food preparation and packaging, and areas for ordering and take-away. The outer ring, a structural screen of powdercoated steel tubing, supports the presentation functions of display and dining service on a floating polished stone counter. The repeated linear elements and simple geometry of the screen recall the deep Deco roots of the diner typology, while creating a transparency between the people on either side of the counter.
Guests enter City Counter through a historic brass door boasting the name of its original tenant, Standard Oil. Brass hardware and lighting fixtures are introduced throughout, including simple opalescent globes along the windows, and inverted counter-mounted pendants to mark the areas for ordering and pick-up. Custom benches with brass trim with line the windows to animate the storefront view from the street.
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