Madero Restaurant
Madero Restaurant
Madero Restaurant
Saúl GT
Saúl GT
Client
Client
Architecture, Interior Design, Art Direction, FF&E
Architecture, Interior Design, Art Direction, FF&E
Services
Services
Built
Built
Status
Status
2021
2021
Year
Year
Multi-use Commercial Space | 4,500 sf | Completed 2015 | Highway Roosevelt, Guatemala City This café and event space draws its inspiration from commercial roadside icons. To draw the attention of passing traffic, the building exterior is conceived as a four-sided billboard: a provocative fifty-foot matte-black cube studded with colorful car chassis.
Multi-use Commercial Space | 4,500 sf | Completed 2015 | Highway Roosevelt, Guatemala City This café and event space draws its inspiration from commercial roadside icons. To draw the attention of passing traffic, the building exterior is conceived as a four-sided billboard: a provocative fifty-foot matte-black cube studded with colorful car chassis.
“We’ll be surprised if you ever see a more whimsical eatery”
Vogue Living
Vogue Living
The urban highway scale of the exterior is paired with a lush, layered interior— a pastiche of technical and traditional elements. The exposed steel structure, skylights, and louvres are expressed to emphasize the building’s systems and approach to sustainability. Reclaimed rainwater is collected in bright blue tanks held along the walls, funneling water to the 15-foot palm trees that partition the open floor plan. The floor is made from a patchwork of cement tiles and recycled building material reclaimed from local exterior patios. These elements combine with custom millwork, tropical vegetation, and furnishings in a vibrant color palette to create a space that is at once familiar and refreshingly unexpected.
The urban highway scale of the exterior is paired with a lush, layered interior— a pastiche of technical and traditional elements. The exposed steel structure, skylights, and louvres are expressed to emphasize the building’s systems and approach to sustainability. Reclaimed rainwater is collected in bright blue tanks held along the walls, funneling water to the 15-foot palm trees that partition the open floor plan. The floor is made from a patchwork of cement tiles and recycled building material reclaimed from local exterior patios. These elements combine with custom millwork, tropical vegetation, and furnishings in a vibrant color palette to create a space that is at once familiar and refreshingly unexpected.
