Andytown Kearny carries the spirit of Ocean Seaside into San Francisco’s Monetary District, the place Studio BANAA transforms a hovering historic corridor right into a high-volume restaurant and café. Designed in 2026, the inside facilities on an undulating blue-and-white plaster bar, then makes use of sculptural furnishings to order the ground with out enclosing it. Stained glass, clerestory gentle, and an illustrated citywide journey join the downtown handle to the espresso roaster’s coastal beginnings.
About Andytown Kearny
Andytown Espresso Roasters begins close to Ocean Seaside, in a compact storefront on a fog-bound western strip. At Kearny Avenue, the corporate meets San Francisco’s Monetary District in a really completely different setting: a hovering, light-filled corridor inside a historic downtown constructing. Studio BANAA interprets that coastal origin for a restaurant and café constructed to soak up the district’s rush whereas sustaining a recognizable connection to the model’s beginnings.
A Wave Turns into the Bar
The room facilities on a low, undulating bar completed in hand-troweled plaster. Its painted gradient begins vibrant white on the counter and deepens to Pacific blue on the flooring, turning the service factor into the challenge’s clearest reference to the water. The continual curve reads as a single swell fairly than typical millwork, giving the massive corridor an object with a softer scale.
The gesture is sensible in addition to graphic. Its size accommodates a crowd that arrives in concentrated waves, whereas the curved face retains the counter from feeling onerous or institutional. A demanding service requirement is resolved by the room’s main kind fairly than handled as a separate layer.
Sculptural Furnishings Directs the Flooring
As a substitute of filling the double-height room, Studio BANAA leaves the amount open and choreographs the ground with two freestanding items: a customized live-edge bench lower into a protracted curve and a rounded merchandise island in pale birch. Collectively they distinguish fast service close to the entrance from a slower lounge space with out partitions. From completely different positions, the bench, island, and bar overlap into shifting compositions, lending the inside selection whereas preserving visible continuity.
Historic Gentle Meets Coastal Colour
Authentic stained glass sends coloured gentle throughout polished concrete, whereas clerestory home windows hold the tall corridor luminous throughout the day. Sage-green grid tile, heat birch plywood, terracotta pendant cylinders, and planting alongside the ledges present a grounded counterpoint. The palette carries the model’s coastal-Californian character into the downtown scale.
Above the counter, a steady illustrated mural wraps three partitions with the journey of Andytown’s Snowy Plovers, the endangered Ocean Seaside shorebirds that function its mascots. Learn from left to proper, the scene strikes from poppies, dunes, cypress, breaching whales, and the Golden Gate by neighborhood landmarks and towards streetcars, Muni, and downtown high-rises. The plovers journey by tandem bicycle, curler skates, and picnic outings, carrying espresso alongside the way in which. The narrative traces the roaster’s personal passage from the town’s western edge to Kearny Avenue, preserving its coastal historical past current overhead.
Images courtesy of Studio BANAA
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– by Matt Watts
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