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Xing Restaurant by LTL Architects 

Photographer: Michael Moran 

Client: LTL Architects

Location: New York, NY

Shoot Date: 
February 09, 2005 
This 2,000-square-foot Chinese restaurant occupies a floor plan typical of New York City residential buildings; light wells located on each side of the tenement building give it a dog-bone-like shape. Rather than hiding this distinctive narrowed section between the front and the back, LTL accentuated the unique nature of each of the spaces. Employing a logic derived from the Surrealist game—the Exquisite Corpse—LTL configured the four spaces into distinct yet interlocked areas. Each area is defined and wrapped by contrasting materials that shift from hard at the most public street entry to soft at the most private room in the back of the space. At the thresholds between each of the four distinct areas, the materials’ edges are expressed, calling attention to the role of the material as a thickened skin or shell. (LTL) 
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