Compiled by
Pari Syal
Photography:
Courtesy Design Atelier
The
Air Force Sports Complex Golf Course, New Delhi, has been perked up with an
open kaleidoscopic design as the new watering hole for its elite golfers...
Walking
passionately for long hours to strike a hole, golfers of the Air Force Sports
Complex in New Delhi have a special tee-off at their new watering hole called
the Fairway Pub.
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Located
in the middle of a golf course virtually on a fairway, the pub is designed as a
cool rendezvous with à la mode ambience, lighting and landscaping. Its kaleidoscopic
design is a confluence of energies: decadent details, oaky timber beams
covering the ceilings; touches of gold bronze trims, finished with moonlight
silver lights... ensconced in a chic palette of grey stone, brown leathers and
blue and white accents. Adding a rustic appeal is the distressed grey
industrial stone-tile flooring that resonates with the blue and reddish yellow
ambient lights in different parts of the restaurant.
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Designed
by architectural firm Design Atelier, the pub is an exercise in refurbishing,
where an old crumbling structure is structurally retrofitted; reconnecting the
interiors with the expansive natural environment via fully glazed panels, opening
up the restaurant to the verdant landscape.
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Seating
orientations are integrated into a 360 degree viewing solution, with straight
chair backs, rotund sofa sets and casual foursomes creating distinct comfort
zones amidst bespoke wall graphics and custom posters designed by Design Route,
delineating stories around the mythologies of golf and illuminated by carefully
concealed lights. With water bodies adding a touch of melancholy to the
landscape, the virtually open restaurant also has umbrella-sheltered al fresco seating anointing its
exteriors, adding a touch of whimsy and invitation to the place.
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The
highlight is its UV and coloured LED-based high efficiency lighting that forms
the backbone of the hospitality experience with a wide range of accent and
functional lighting solutions in the entrance lobby, the corridors, restaurant,
bar, and aesthetic landscape lighting.
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Although
the golf-based decor appears clichéd in places, the pub succeeds in facilitating
conversations and easy mingling, in a bespoke hospitality design nested in
nature.
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