Morimoto is a cutting-edge restaurant serving contemporary Japanese cuisine. Chef Masaharu Morimoto of Iron Chef fame prepares traditional dishes with a modern flair. Morimoto Restaurant designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando for Chef Masharu Morimoto, when he decided to make his New York solo debut in 2006 with the opening of a new restaurant.
The bi-level restaurant is separated into a 160-person seated dining area and a 40 person lounge in the lower level. Ando achieves a Zen-like serenity throughout the space by using glass privacy walls between tables, rice paper walls, and an organic ceiling that resembles the raked sand of Eastern rock gardens.
The ‘bottle wall’, is composed out of 17,400 half liter plastic bottles, filled with mineral water and LED lighting that produces a backlit shimmery effect in the space.
-via-
