Canadian office Batay-Csorba Architects has created a greyscale interior for the ShuckShuck oyster restaurant in Vancouver complete with a snaking concrete bar.
ShuckShuck's interior is designed to evoke the colour and texture of oyster shells, with rough pre-cast concrete surfaces and textured painted walls.
Two curving concrete high tables are the only furniture
Batay-Csorba Architects designed the eatery in Vancouver's Chinatown district for owners Larry Lau and Waylon Sharp, who are serving up Pacific oysters with unusual toppings such as maple syrup and bacon bits alongside oyster margarita shots.
The oyster bar was designed to be informal, with the communal high concrete tables undulating through the room like a loop broken in two places.
The looping shapes form 19 metres of table space To further echo the look of an oyster, the tops and sides of the bars are polished and smoothed like the inside of an oyster shell, while their undersides are rough and pockmarked.
If laid out end to end, the counters would be 19 metres long.
Concrete floors, columns and furniture define the space
"The fibre-reinforced concrete tables mediate between the interactive qualities of a loose and casual 'bar top' and the intimacy and enveloping relationship of a 'booth' that wraps around you," said Batay-Csorba Architects.

"Depending on where a patron is standing at the table their personal sense of space and level of interaction with others varies."
The counters are smo...