after visiting the Pulitzer in Saint Lou, it pleased me to read about Tadao Ando's first project in NYC for Chef Morimoto's new restaurant, Morimoto talk about a pleasant, welcoming assault on the senses---food (SUSHI!) + design.
from the The New York Times home section:
"The celebrated Japanese architect Tadao Ando has completed his first project in New York: Morimoto restaurant at 88 10th Avenue (16th Street). Named after its chef, Masaharu Morimoto (a k a the Iron Chef), the $12 million restaurant features ceilings draped in undulating fiberglass-reinforced canvas, evoking the raked gravel of Zen rock gardens; furniture by Ross Lovegrove; a traditional noren curtain and Mr. Ando's signature use of concrete. The lighting, including a wall of L.E.D.-illuminated water bottles, inset, is by Arnold Chan. "Mr. Ando wanted something serene," said Stephanie Goto of Goto Design Group in New York, which collaborated on the project, "a Japanese sensibility without being overtly Japanese." ARIC CHEN (NYT)
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