DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
Photos : David Zarzoso
Restaurant MMC , Brutalism Over the Sea
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Zooco , winner of the Architecture Masterprize 2023 award in the “ Small firm of multidisciplinary interior design ” category , proudly introduces its latest completed project : The Cantabrian Maritime Museum restaurant .
Located on Severiano Ballesteros Street in Santander , Spain , the restaurant was conceived as part of an architectural complex that also includes an Oceanographic Center designed by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales , built between 1975 and 1978 .
The original building consists of two square bodies connected by a canopy , with a concrete structure . The interior is distributed over three floors around a central courtyard covered by a vault of paraboloid membranes . In 2003 , a renovation and extension was carried out which included the extension of the west façade and the roof of the terrace with a
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