Vienna, Austria
Steiner Architecture has designed the new Drago Restaurant inside Kohn Pedersen Fox’s new Petersen Automotive Museum using KPF’s baroque design and transforming the interior as a lush oasis on Los Angeles’ Wilshire Boulevard.
The Petersen Museum captures the art, experience, culture, and heritage of the automobile, and becomes a worthy neighbor for the buildings of Museum Row on Los Angeles’ famed Miracle Mile.
Steiner Architecture utilized KPF’s corrugated aluminum rain screen outboard that wraps the building and the “ribbons” of angel hair stainless steel and red-painted aluminum that flows around the building as inspiration, incorporating those details into the restaurant’s interior.
The restaurant has been conceived as a disruptive intrusion in the otherwise homogenous building.
Steiner Architecture played with reflections using mirror walls, mirror columns, and a mirrored ceiling that doubles the lighting fixtures, which are all deliberate attempts to make the space harder to grasp.
On the exterior space, the terrace is imagined as an oasis: an intimate garden sheltered by lush palm trees in the middle of the concrete jungle of Los Angeles.
Project: Drago Restaurant
Architects: Steiner Architecture
Client: Petersen Automotive Museum
Renderings: Steiner Architecture
