Le Mirazur Bar and Restaurant
Menton, France, 2001
Info
Program:
The program envisages the restoration and conversion of a 50s building in a Restaurant-Bar for a total of 315 seats, banquets rooms, staff accommodation and a garden with aromatic herbs. The main Restaurant room and a small servery are located at the street level. Facades were reshaped with wider openings in order to give more transparency and a better panoramic view to the sea. Fabric awnings projecting out of the external envelope are dynamic elements that emphasize again the lightness of the new structure. The respect of the nature of the site is reached by using few coherent materials and simple finishes like white render and fabric awnings, local flamed stone, transparent glass, grey painted steel with rattan seats, stools and chairs. In the same spirit the built-in bar counter comes out of the walls projecting to the sea. The cocktail terrace facing the garden, with a covered timber deck and an internal small room for private functions, completes the overall capacity of Mirazur. The project has been realized in partnership with Rick Mather Architects.
Project Date:
1999 - 2001
Completion:
2001
Client:
SCI Le Mirazur Paris
Gross Floor Area:
2.420 sqm (315 seats)
Landscape Area:
1.200 sqm
Contract Value:
2.500.000 Euro
Design:
Vittorio Grassi Architetto e Rick Mather Architects ltd
Team:
Chantal Cattaneo e Chris Wisdom Local Architects: Larsson and Kopaj
Landscape design:
Arnaud Mauričres
Structural Engineer:
Atelier 75
Structures Services Eng.:
Jean Florino
Kitchen design:
Jacques Chibois, Nick McKay
Photographer:
Enrico Cano
