Time to cave in: Restaurant takes diners back to nature

Sydney – A new restaurant brings primitive aesthetics to its diners.

Koichi Takada Architects designed the Cave Restaurant in Sydney to mimic the cave-like structures associated with our distant ancestors.

The designers also aimed to bring noise levels down: a more modern-day focus. ‘We have experimented with noise levels in relation to the comfort of dining and the ambience a cave-like environment can create,’ the architects explain.

The restaurant’s walls are covered with computer-developed ‘acoustic timber’, curved to create a grotto-type space.

LS:N Global recently wrote about the Viet Hoa Café in London, which evokes a similar back-to-nature feeling in a tree-house setting.