LET'S STAY: Cool Ceiling Design Ideas

Mississippi Blues: Restaurants with grief and modern ceiling Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects

Warren Platner designed the American Restaurant in Kansas City in 1974 as part of a complex of modern buildings commissioned by the Hall family of Hallmark Cards. Image via dwell.

The Tote, India by Serie Architects via Yatzer

Honeycomb timber structure in Toronto by Levitt Goodman Architects, via ArchDaily.

Outsider Tart, LONDON;

Lead designer // David Lesniak

Category // Cafe or fast food

Bangalore Express Bar, LONDON

Lead designer // Outline

Category // Multiple bar or club

Pio Pio, NEW YORK

# Lead designer // Sebastian Mariscal Studio

Category // International restaurant // photo © a r c h p h o t o

Johnnie Walker House in Shanghai by Asylum via ArchDaily.

Aesop Adelaide store made from recycled bottles, via The Cool Hunter.

Jun Takahashi’s UNDERCOVER boutique in Aoyama Tokyo boasts a surreal ceiling installation of thousands of lightbulbs in rolling waves, via AnotherMag.

UK Pavillion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Heatherwick Studio.

Jing Restaurant, Singapore by Antonio Eraso, via ArchDaily.

‘Stalactite Domes’, via I’m Revolting.

Ceiling made up of thousands of wooden sticks in the Tsujita Restaurant, LA, by Japanese designer Takeshi Sano. Via Contemporist.

Wexler’s BBQ Restaurant by Aidlin Darling Design via Shawn Lowe.

BANQ restaurant by Office dA, via Yatzer.

Restaurant Zmianatematu in Poland, designed by xm3. Via mocoloco.

‘What Happens When’ pop-up restaurant in New York by The Metrics. This restaurant receives a ‘makeover’ every 30 days – a perfect example of what a different ceiling can do to transform a space. Images via Core77.

Via: yellowtrace

By Yellow Goat Design

(Using Canvas Drapery)

Hilton Pattaya in Thailand

by Architecture firms(MAAR and S.O.D.A)

with interior designers (Department of Architecture and August Design)

Boa Hairdressers Salon by Claudia Meier,

Using a series of white translucent fibres hanging from the ceiling,

with light filtering through them over the workstations.

The lengths of the fibres are varied to give the impression of cut hair.

(Using strips of bamboo hanging from the ceiling)

Japanse Winkeltje by Nezu Aymo Architect

Aesop store by March Studio

Melbourne architects March Studio have hung 30 km of coconut-husk string from the ceiling of a new shop in Singapore for Australian skincare brand Aesop.