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Delhi. All should be combined in a glamorous atmosphere that gently transforms from a restaurant to a clubby late- night destination.


Te design revolved around the defined triple-height architectural glass oval building floating on a lily pond. For the interior, we created a tiered, terraced layout, connected by a grand central staircase. Te focus is on a dramatic bar on the lowest garden level with the balconies featuring different seating areas, private dining rooms and an open plan show kitchen, all designed for seeing and to be seen. Following the ‘new India’ art and craftsmanship of the Andaz


Clockwise The booths at the Hong Kong Club, where guests can enjoy Chinese food and cocktails. With its modern and glamorous decor, the club aims to not only attract international visitors, but also New Delhi’s fashionable locals. As well as being a late-night club destination, the Hong Kong Club is also a desirable and stylish dining experience


hotel, we created a similar language for the Hong Kong Club. Tis resembled a new vision of China and its progressive new art movement together with a contemporary approach to traditional Chinese crafts through its materials, design, art, and decorations.


What design direction do you see for bars and restaurants in the near future? What will be the likely priorities for designers and architects to address? Touching back on the Covid subject, I feel we need to consider guests’ health and safety to be better embedded into design principles of the future. We might be surprised by a new virus but, equally, some of us have become much more aware and have not yet been able to get back to being as comfortable in certain settings as before. Next to this, I feel that our guest and customer base is transitioning, and the new generations are accustomed to visiting places in a more selective way, for very specific reasons; food, ambience or whatever this may be. More exposure through social media by unmanaged ‘reviews’ will raise the bar from what we might have been used to. Ambience and service will play a big part in this, and the role of the designers will be to deliver a unique and quality bar or restaurant concept will become more important. virgileandpartners.com


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