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01 / Selected perspectives

A sense of place.

Restaurants, markets, and food halls that bring people together. Some built, some still on the board.

Sunlit restaurant bar with fluted wood paneling, cognac leather stools, brass shelving, and geometric lantern pendants

Zon Zon - Dallas, TX

Hospitality concept · Concept design & construction

Darna Mediterranean Market + Eatery storefront with turquoise signage, rattan patio seating, and canvas umbrellas on a sunlit sidewalk

Darna Eatery - Legacy West, Plano, TX

Hospitality concept · Design & construction

Evening dining room with terracotta plaster walls, a ribbed rust-coloured banquette and bentwood chairs, a mosaic-tiled bar to the left, draped crimson canopies, and a Moorish archway lit by pierced brass lanterns

Baboush - West Village, Dallas, TX

Middle Eastern restaurant · Concept design & construction

Wild Pita storefront at midday — a grey panel and wood-slat facade beside a bright yellow wall carrying the brand name and a googly-eye graphic, with a black steel patio canopy and yellow chairs out front

Wild Pita - College Station, TX

Mediterranean quick-serve · Concept design & construction

Elevated view across a lounge restaurant — a full-height tree at the centre beneath a carved wooden ceiling panel, curved navy banquettes and marble tables with woven cane chairs on patterned mosaic tile, an arched pass-through lined with mosaic tile, a deep blue barrel-vaulted ceiling to the left, and a marble-topped bar with a backlit front and laser-cut lattice bottle shelves to the right

The Linden - Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX

Contemporary American restaurant · Concept design & construction

The main hall at Crave Food Hall at Purdue — students at long blonde-wood communal tables beneath timber rafters and rows of matte black dome pendants, with the Taco Sabe, Shawarma Shack and Sonny & Sons stalls along the back wall

Crave Food Hall — Purdue University

8000 SF campus food hall ·  Design & construction

The Junction exterior at twilight — a two-storey building with roll-up glass garage doors glowing warm from inside, an outdoor patio with umbrellas along the sidewalk, and a cyclist blurred across the foreground

Junction Food Hall - Denver, Co

12000 SF food hall · Design & construction