Brutalist is the new paradise? this restaurant takes clue from Sri Lankan dusk-til-dawn food culture

when merging cement, concrete and black steel altogether, there are three design style possibilities of what these materials can form. one is a clean — minimalist design, a bold and masculine nuance, and the last is a sharp and brutalist look.

when brutalist design often associated with ruggedness, rough surfaces, or lack of concern to look comfortable, for the sri lankan restaurant in soho, london, the three materials have made its own paradise for the newly opened london base paradise restaurant.

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designed by dan preston, paradise restaurant — which formerly housed another eatery — is located on soho’s busy rupert street in only 51-square-meters. not intentionally made it look brutalist, yet the final result of the space did its own term of “brutally aesthetic” look through the three materials that have been used.