New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has created a split-level bar in Nordstrom's flagship store in Midtown Manhattan.
Called Broadway Bar, the outpost is in the seven-storey Nordstrom department store on the corner of 57th Street and Broadway. It was designed by the local architect and his studio Architecture at Large and features a grey-and-yellow palette with custom furniture.
"We aimed for a soothing space within the cacophony of Midtown, and a department store to boot," De Cárdenas told Dezeen. "The colour palette of avocado and egg yolk came about whilst seeking calming yet sophisticated colours."

Spanning the third and fourth floors, the coffee and cocktail bar features sash windows overlooking Broadway, from which it takes its name. "The space is architecturally interesting because it?s nestled between the new building and a landmark-saved facade on Broadway," said De Cárdenas.
"The floor plates of the two structures didn't align, so our resulting space was vertically charged with a mezzanine and access from two floors of the department store."

Broadway Bar was incorporated within an existing structure that was overhauled for the flagship, which was designed in-house and by local design firm James Carpenter Design Associates.
It is accessed from a retail floor dedicated to women's designer clothing, alongside a series of chainmail-wrapped boutiques. No doors or walls divide the split-level bar from the store, and it is ...