Specialty Café – City Center

The guideline for the design of the Caffe UTU, located in Nicosia near the city center, is the idea of creating essential space, defined by a linear design, with simple geometries and light effects. All of this is done with the intent of conferring it a certain elegance and balance.

The space, located on the ground floor of a twentieth-century building, overlooks the arcades surrounding a beautiful modernism building, which contains the historic center of Nicosia old town. The main feature of this bar is its twelve-meter-long rectangular shape.

The project therefore emphasizes the longitudinal original shape creating an important sense of perspective.

The new space is organized in two functional areas: the first, for service, is defined by a long linear counter, one meter-twenty high, cladded in white Corian and with a bottom light cove which grants it a sense of lightness in the space. The second area is the one reserved to the customers, and it’s characterized by a bench upholstered in white leather which runs longitudinally the space.