FOOD AND DRINK
Various examples of our design work for bars and restaurants.
***winner of the 2023 AIA Rochester Community Impact Award***
Silver Lake Brewing Project. Perry NY. This microbrewery, co-founded by I.S:A project-architect-at-the-time Ryan Fitzsimmons who also developed the design, occupies a former horse barn/movie theater/print shop that had fallen into disrepair over the past 20 years. Located next door to our Perry office, the design celebrates the act of gathering, and its history, by infusing the space with volume, light and tactile materials salvaged from the area that tell a story. (photography: Tim Wilkes)
Ember Woodfire Grill. Livonia NY. How do you add on to a historically significant building? We took the owner's vision for a thoroughly modern dining experience by re-inventing identity for an old depot. The scale and rhythmic skin of our low-slung 2000 sf bar/dining room addition provides opportunities for interior drama while it respects the visual prominence of - and serves as counterpoint to - the historic depot. Customers emerge in a tall internal volume infused with natural light. For some, the promenade continues outside beneath a pergola to an enclosed outdoor patio and bar. (photography: Don Cochran)
Pi Craft Pizzeria. Rochester and Buffalo NY. We designed the prototype interior for a new kind of pizzeria centered on an open high-temperature pizza oven that can receive customers’ custom-built pie and bake it in six minutes. Fast, casual, efficient.
Ration Wine Bar. Perry NY. For this small pre-civil war, downtown building we emphasized visual openness front to back with patron seating sandwiched between a modern, poured concrete countertop and the newly exposed 185-year old stone wall.
Strange Design Brewery. Geneseo, NY. The building spoke so clearly, our role was to help celebrate its history and character while inserting a variety of seating, a central open bar, front and rear entry challenges, handicap accessibility, kitchen, restrooms, and all the functional and access needs of the brewhouse one level down. (photography: Batavia Daily News)