MERIDIAN HALL
LOCATION
TORONTO
YEAR
2020
TYPE
COMMERCIAL
TEAM
DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION
PHOTOGRAPHY
ANDRES ULISES BAUTISTA
TO Live commissioned us to design 6 new commercial bars and a set of 8 portable bars at the Meridian Hall Performing Arts Centre. The existing bars are outdated and the original designs doesn’t quite fit in the space. Since the Meridian Hall is a designated Heritage Building, the proposed new bars will complement the existing materials in the interior spaces. The space is covered with perforated brass metal for telephone booths, marble walls, and ashtrays. For the bars, we proposed to use brass metal for the kick plates, quartz for the counters, walnut wood panels for the surface, and perforated brass chandelier. For the portable bars, the construction is a metal frame with perforated brass for the surface.
Carefully considering the sense of touch, the experience of the space becomes an interplay of textures and temperatures in combination with contrasting polished and raw surfaces. The differing textures play an important role in highlighting distinctive features, as the contrast between rough and solid or soft and hard becomes even more noticeable, than if one of them were void.