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Singapore’s Chic “Wild Rocket” Would Fit In Nicely In Olympic Village

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(via) We dig the aesthetic at Wild Rocket, which serves up modern interpretations of local cuisine in Singapore. We’d love to see something similar in Vancouver, which is woefully underserved in that particular milieu, especially on the modern front. We think somewhere in Olympic Village would be a great fit, if only to help pop the neighbourhood’s mega-pub balloon (1,000+ beery seats and counting). Because if there can’t be variety in architecture, there should at least be variety in concept!

Despite the Singaporean focus of the menu, the PRODUCE design shop gave it the look and feel of a traditional Japanese tea house. Guests enter through a roji, or garden path, that is lifted “to give the entrance a sense of reduction in aperture creating the nijiriguchi, or crawl doorway.” The interior – anchored in concrete – is softened and framed with an inspired lattice work made up of over 15,000 individual pieces of wood. “Formed using a helix algorithm with seven different planar directions, it took six workers a total of four weeks to complete.”

These evocative images by Mindy Tan and Derrick Lim got us dreaming our little dream…

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