all images © Andres Martellini 

Hitzig Militello Architects designed a bar&restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which fills the interior space with the new elements and new furnitures. The design studio explains design approach like: the design responds to the construction of an industrial environment taking elements of the industrial revolution with certain contemporary style interventions classified as steampunk. The challenge of balancing industrial elements and a sort of elegance was the criteria to carry out the construction of the environment. The space where the project took place was an abandoned warehouse where nothing but the kitchen was used for the new project.

the facade of space covered with a colourful illustrations that catch the visitor's eye at first sight.

Organizationally, being separated bar and coffee place, it was necessary that many areas were common to both. This means elaborating an overall design of the space. The choice of "secret" in and out doors covered in brick for circulation areas, responds to the concept of hidden bar. The fictitious brick wall surrounded by a heavy red curtain suggests the entrance to the bar protected by the haunting look of the picture "paperboy" typical of early last century.

Towards the front, the coffe place. Its characteristics reflect a fusion of local elements (damajunas lighting) along with the typical aesthetics of New York's bakerys. The coffee place design was meant to absolutely ignore the bar behind brick walls. By opposite the project puts the visitor off. We chose to cover facade entirely with advertisements of old films and at night a sliding iron gate covers the facade, which is completely graffited with the image of Queen Victoria.