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Hyderabad, India
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Loqa
Hyderabad, India
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
Loqa by Sona Reddy Studio: A bar designed like an alternate reality
Tucked away from the noise of Hyderabad, Loqa, a 38-seat bar, is conceived as a world within itself. Step inside, and the city fades; not abruptly, but as if you’ve slipped quietly into a parallel rhythm. It is designed by Sona Reddy Studio to resist the easy anchor of nostalgia, futurism or themes. Instead, it exists in a deliberate in-between, a space that blurs temporal references until you’re not quite sure when or where you are. This ‘timeless elsewhere’, as Sona calls it, is rare in a world where most bars lean heavily on trends. The result is a space where the outside world feels suspended, the pace softens, inviting guests to sink fully into the present moment and connect.
The 1,250 square feet expanse, housed within a narrow linear space, is at once grounded and dreamlike, evoking an alternate reality. Overhead, a dense canopy of bamboo rods floats like an abstract field of energy. It modulates the scale of the space and enhances acoustics, while at the same time lending intimacy to the setting. Below, rich green marble wraps the walls, the bar, and the tabletops. Its deep tones and quiet sheen create a strong counterweight to the palette. This improbable yet natural pairing lends Loqa a sense of surreality that anchors a sense of being both somewhere and nowhere at once.
Details are equally choreographed to shift one’s pace. Lighting is dim and precise, tuned to illuminate not the room but the small, private moments unfolding within the space. Surfaces clad in green act as a counterpoint to the bamboo ceiling above and the surrealist bar counter. The intense hue also imbues the space with a fascination as if sitting within a carved stone chamber. This desire to create an environment that feels both immersive and otherworldly is what guides the design of the space.
At Loqa, guests are not served en masse; they are received, individually, with drinks crafted to tune into their personal moods. The bar itself is designed more like a ritual than a loud centrepiece. Stone slabs are arranged in a non-uniform grid to break visual heaviness, with joints becoming a subtle graphic that animates the plane surface. Hemispherical marble balls are integrated into this wall to lend a tactile appeal, while surfaces reflect light and cast shifting shadows across the space. Even the bar back with its stepped display and understated lighting lends the space a bit of mystique. In doing so, Loqa turns the familiar act of “going for a drink” into something more intimate.
Loqa’s refusal to belong to a specific time is part of its quiet allure. It doesn’t try to be ahead of schedule. It leans in, instead, to presence, to subtlety, and to atmosphere. Here, television monitors flicker with cryptic nostalgia, the design pulses with a sense of time-travel—never futuristic, never retro, just not now. And in this beautiful in-between, Loqa offers something of a novelty: presence, subtlety, and atmosphere as a form of luxury.
Tucked away from the noise of Hyderabad, Loqa, a 38-seat bar, is conceived as a world within itself. Step inside, and the city fades; not abruptly, but as if you’ve slipped quietly into a parallel rhythm. It is designed by Sona Reddy Studio to resist the easy anchor of nostalgia, futurism or themes. Instead, it exists in a deliberate in-between, a space that blurs temporal references until you’re not quite sure when or where you are. This ‘timeless elsewhere’, as Sona calls it, is rare in a world where most bars lean heavily on trends. The result is a space where the outside world feels suspended, the pace softens, inviting guests to sink fully into the present moment and connect.
The 1,250 square feet expanse, housed within a narrow linear space, is at once grounded and dreamlike, evoking an alternate reality. Overhead, a dense canopy of bamboo rods floats like an abstract field of energy. It modulates the scale of the space and enhances acoustics, while at the same time lending intimacy to the setting. Below, rich green marble wraps the walls, the bar, and the tabletops. Its deep tones and quiet sheen create a strong counterweight to the palette. This improbable yet natural pairing lends Loqa a sense of surreality that anchors a sense of being both somewhere and nowhere at once.
Details are equally choreographed to shift one’s pace. Lighting is dim and precise, tuned to illuminate not the room but the small, private moments unfolding within the space. Surfaces clad in green act as a counterpoint to the bamboo ceiling above and the surrealist bar counter. The intense hue also imbues the space with a fascination as if sitting within a carved stone chamber. This desire to create an environment that feels both immersive and otherworldly is what guides the design of the space.
At Loqa, guests are not served en masse; they are received, individually, with drinks crafted to tune into their personal moods. The bar itself is designed more like a ritual than a loud centrepiece. Stone slabs are arranged in a non-uniform grid to break visual heaviness, with joints becoming a subtle graphic that animates the plane surface. Hemispherical marble balls are integrated into this wall to lend a tactile appeal, while surfaces reflect light and cast shifting shadows across the space. Even the bar back with its stepped display and understated lighting lends the space a bit of mystique. In doing so, Loqa turns the familiar act of “going for a drink” into something more intimate.
Loqa’s refusal to belong to a specific time is part of its quiet allure. It doesn’t try to be ahead of schedule. It leans in, instead, to presence, to subtlety, and to atmosphere. Here, television monitors flicker with cryptic nostalgia, the design pulses with a sense of time-travel—never futuristic, never retro, just not now. And in this beautiful in-between, Loqa offers something of a novelty: presence, subtlety, and atmosphere as a form of luxury.
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