The Parallel Blue
The Parallel Blue Aquarium Dining by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a winner of the 2021 Iron A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design.
The Parallel Blue is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
Explore This Amazing WorkThe Parallel Blue Aquarium Dining
Located in one of the most bustling nightlife spots in Japan, The Parallel Blue offers a new aquarium dining experience in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Challenging the ocean-themed possibilities in the heart of the concrete jungle, the new restaurant turns the simple hospitality environment into an immersive space where dinners are submerged in an aquarium universe. To create the immersive experience, walls were finished in mirrors and the ceiling in similarly reflective aluminum panels expending the space in all directions and recreating the oceanic life in a surrounding environment.
Featured Design
The Parallel Blue by Tetsuya Matsumoto
Core Functionality
Aquarium Dining
Accolades
Interior Space and Exhibition Design Award Winner in 2021.
Iron Winner
The Parallel Blue Aquarium Dining
The Parallel Blue is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. The Parallel Blue is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. The Parallel Blue is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Tetsuya Matsumoto
Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards and became a jury member for several prestigious prizes.
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Starlinks.Co.Ltd
Starlinks is a company acting in the restaurant field. The company is running several restaurants and izakaya, Japanese style taverns, mostly in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Starlinks operations includes different restaurants themes from starry nights to aquarium dining.
Winner Brand
KTX archiLAB by MATSUYA ART WORKS.Co.Ltd.
Design your solution. architecture design, interior design, landscape design
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