Crizia Restaurant, Ciudad de Buenos Aires Oyster Bar, Argentina Architects, Argentinean Commercial Architecture Images
Crizia Restaurant in Buenos Aires
20 Sep 2021
Design: also architecture + anotherofda
Location: Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Photos: Gonzalo Viramonte
Crizia Oyster Restaurant
Working on a haute cuisine gastronomic project was a challenge and a learning experience. The initial requirement of the client was austerity. The architectural project should not be imposed over the gastronomic proposal.

Crizia is recognized primarily for its oysters. Working on that and its location, “Pocitos”, were the starting point.

The development of identity lies in the material work, its textures and a language stripped of absolutely any characteristic that they mean, ostentation.
The sand, the oyster and the sea were stimulating when defining materiality.

The project is developed on two served levels, with the main room on the access floor and a room on the upper floor with a special relationship between the “chef table” and an intimate terrace.

Towards the bottom, middle levels meet the service program. In the basement, the storage area and warehouses, the first mezzanine the service bathrooms and the second mezzanine “chef table”, pastry shop and office.

You enter the living room and immediately one recognizes the most important thing in the room, its kitchen, which is the background and is framed from the first moment.

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