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Client: Wolfgang Puck Catering/Restaurant Associates
Date completed: October 2007
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Program: The Source occupies 11,000 square feet of the 250,000-square-foot Newseum designed by Polshek Patnership. The three-level restaurant sits at the northwest corner of the museum and seats 250 guests. A small kitchen and dining area for casual eating are featured on the main level, and a full kitchen and formal dining are on the second floor. A private dining room for 40 guests is on the lower level.
Design concept and solution: Wolfgang Puck and his team requested a clean, minimal design. The architects created an interior in a vein similar to the overall museum, which offers a transparent facade to represent an exposure of the interior to the public. The selected restaurant materials compliment the overall museum’s design: a glass balustrade, a frosted glass catwalk, and a two-story temperature controlled glass wine wall unify the separate formal and casual dining areas. Transparent light fixtures reveal their working mechanisms and light bulbs inside. Guests can see into the efficient open kitchen. Wood-framed wire cloth screens partition seating areas.
Formal name of project: "The Source by Wolfgang Puck" at Newseum
Location: Washington D.C.
Gross square footage: 10,600 sq.ft.
Total construction cost: approx. $5 million
Owner:
Wolfgang Puck Catering/Restaurant Associates
6801 Hollywood Blvd #513
Hollywood, CA 90028
Architect:
McCall Design Group
550 Kearny Street, Suite 710
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.mccalldesign.com
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Interior designer (Project Designer):
EDG Interior Architecture + Design
1201 Fifth Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901
T: 415.454.2277
F: 415.454.2278
www.edgdesign.com
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