Architecture and Interiors: Heliotrope
Design Team: Mike Mora, Design Principal; Jonathan Teng, Project Architect
Contractor: Method Construction
Structural Engineer: Swenson Say Fagét
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Building Area: 2000 sf
Photo Credits: Kevin Scott
Courtesy of Heliotrope
Takai by Kashiba is a sushi restaurant for acclaimed chef Shiro Kashiba, his son, Edwin, and head apprentice Jun Takai. The design is an exercise in simplicity and craft, an intimate retreat to partake in the art of Edomae-style sushi. It is a small restaurant, defined by the sushi bar, the dining room and a whiskey bar, and adopts a Japanese attitude encased in the materials of the Pacific Northwest. Hand troweled plaster walls, and a textural layering of cedar and ash wrapping guests in a soft play of shadow and light.
