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Pescados Capitales is yet another restaurant (there must be some form of link between food & space) but it’s been chosen with good reason.
I’ve always been greatly moved by monumental architecture, the way in which the modesty of stone & timber is off-set by the sheer strength of scale is something I find demanding yet sympathetic. The monument commands your respect & attention but you’re so emotionally driven toward it, it never really had to ask you to admire it anyway.
This is, rather strangely, how I feel about Pescados Capitales when I look at. Although made from concrete as opposed to stone, it’s got a wonderful feeling of natural simplicity to it. It quietly hints at being something more than a place to eat, sunken into the imposing concrete outer walls, it’s more like entering an ancient south American temple (something quite nicely suggested with the little selection of sea creatures carved into the beams)
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The interior is a wonderful marriage of the cold & modest concrete beams and beautiful warm timbers, all wrapped in layer of pristine glazing, leaving you to feel that you’re never truly inside yet still protected by the spirits & space of this gastro-temple.
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Located in Lima , Peru
The Gods presence is always felt as the concrete beams cut through & across the restaurant but at least in this Gods temple it looks like he puts on a pretty good spread.
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