Luke Yeung recently presented Architectkidd’s work for a lecture at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The lecture gave us a chance to reflect on approaches and thinking that we have taken on our recent projects. The projects we showed included Lightmos (below image from Wallpaper Thailand magazine): Hard Rock Cafe in Bangkok: Caffe […]
Hard Rock
Hard Rock Cafe: Design Summary
The Hard Rock Cafe in Bangkok is now complete and open to the public. Architectkidd and Prinda Puranananda designed the restaurant with the aim to re-connect Hard Rock back to its core values: music combined with food and drink to create a dynamic experience. Inspiration 1 – Music Experience:We started by thinking about the rhythms […]
Hard Rock Cafe Launches
The Hard Rock Cafe in Bangkok officially re-opens today with a launch party.Architectkidd was on hand to take part in the event. Apparently it is a Hard Rock ‘tradition’ to celebrate the launching with something called a ‘guitar smash’. After the ceremony outside, there was a performance by Thai Music Superstar Da Endorphine on the […]
Sound Wave: Hard Rock Facade
The design for the new Hard Rock Cafe in Bangkok will mark a new approach for the global Hard Rock brand. This is probably most dynamically expressed in the facade design of the building’s exterior. For Architectkidd, the starting point for this facade design were the shapes, rhythms and structures of sound. Interpreting sound into […]
Old Wood Details
Construction is nearly complete for the new Hard Rock Cafe restaurant in Bangkok. This project is a renovation of an existing building structure in Siam Square, and one of the aspects that Architectkidd and designer Prinda Puranananda focused on during the construction was about re-using materials. In the interior, there will be a stage […]
Bangkok Graffiti
Three Bangkok street artists are currently exhibiting their work at the Hard Rock Cafe in Siam Square. The event is part of Hard Rock Cafe’s building renovation which is now underway. This “Graffiti” event was organized as a competition for Bangkok street artists with the goal to tell the story of Hard Rock as they […]
