The Grant Bar

The Grant, Glassell Park’s long-awaited cocktail bar along Eagle Rock Boulevard, is a mellow 1,400-square-foot bar space that skews towards the building’s enduring Art Deco look, with century-old touches like a curved ceiling, plush velvet banquette seating, and plenty of exposed brick. The menu feels similarly vintage, with takes on classic cocktails like vesper and old fashioneds in addition to loads of natural wine (including on-tap wine options).

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Project Type	Cocktail Bar
Location	Glassell Park, Los Angeles, CA
Status	Completed 2019
Size	1400 SQ FT

Universal CityFood

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Update of food court furniture, floor tile, paint

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Project Type	Renovation
Location	Universal City, Los Angeles, CA
Status	Under Construction

Restaurants & Retail

B Grill by BOA Steakhouse

Carl’s Jr.

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Earthbar LAX

Engine Co. No. 28

Farmers Market LAX

Ford’s Filling Station / L.A. Times Newsstand

Homeboy Café

Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill

Lemonade

Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza

Temple Restaurant

The Grant Bar

Westfield Century City Dining Terrace

Corsini Stark Architects was retained by Westfield Corp. to develop new branding, corporate identity, and architectural design for their Dining Terrace tenants — Cal Crisp, Red Rock Chili, Gulen’s Mediterranean, and Newsstand — at their North American flagship Century City mall. The Dining Terrace concept seeks to aesthetically elevate the quality of the dining experience at Century City and the specific restaurant designs establish a clear visual identity evocative of the foods served and their regions of origin. We designed new logos, signs, and menus in addition to architectural and lighting design to ensure an integrated brand identity for their clients.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Project Type	Food Court, Inline Quick-Service Restaurants and Newsstand
Location	Los Angeles, CA
Status	Completed 2005
Size	3,500 sq. feet

Temple Restaurant

The original coffee shop was designed in 1956 by Armet and Davis for the Tiny Naylor’s chain. With the eye-catching kitsch modernism of the original long faded, we transformed the downtrodden Googie style eatery into a refined setting for a California take on Brazilian-Korean cuisine.

A guest approaches up a gentle ramp and under a luminous translucent canopy, arriving on-axis with the entry, crossing a bridge above a threshold of water, and arriving on a white interior surface. Dark wood furnishings and tan upholstery center the dining area. White random-mix mosaic tile, brushed aluminum, mirror, and floor-to-ceiling glass lighten the visual weight of volumes and surfaces, reflect light in different ways, and dissolve the distinction between interior and exterior space.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Project Type	Adaptive Reuse and Renovation
Location	Beverly Hills, CA
Status	Completed 2001
Size	2,000 sq. feet

Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza

A dynamic, stepped wood soffit moves through space to lead the traveler from the entry to the main dining area. Exhibition cooking, exposed to the busy Terminal 4 concourse, lends theatricality to the traveling and dining experience while heavy stone walls frame views from the concourse through the dining space to the runway. Tension is created between static, monolithic stone floors, walls, and counters and the light, dynamic wood soffit while walnut, glazed Japanese penny tile and Turkish seagrass limestone resonate with the texture and earthiness of the brand’s Mediterranean menu.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Client	Areas USA
Project Type	Airport Full-Service Restaurant, Bar
Location	Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 4, Los Angeles, CA
Status	Completed 2012
Size	2,100 sq. feet

Lemonade

Our design team utilized fluid, cursive-inspired forms to define space within a light-filled airport concourse, integrating space, form, and branding into a cohesive spatial and culinary experience. We transformed two-dimensional branding into architectural space-defining elements: a logo is enlarged, thickened, and repeated to create a patterned, permeable enclosure; a photo is abstracted by increasing its scale, blurring it, and installing it adjacent to a base-building mirror to create an illusion of infinite space and dappled sunlight. Light colors and materials create a contrapuntal frame for rich, earthy local cuisine, united by a perception of “freshness.”

CSA conceived and produced the citrus mural and branded signage for this project.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Client	Crews of California
Project Type	Airport Quick-Service Restaurant
Location	Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 5, Los Angeles, CA
Status	Completed 2012
Size	2,800 sq. feet

Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill

Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar and Grill is a full-service bar and restaurant and the first location for this new regional chain. CSA also developed Remy’s new graphic identity.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Project Type	Airport Full-Service Restaurant, Bar
Location	Logan International Airport, Terminal B, Boston, MA
Status	Completed 2007
Size	3,000 sq. feet

Ford’s Filling Station / L.A. Times Newsstand

Celebrity chef Ben Ford established Ford’s Filling Station in Culver City, where the gastropub became a cornerstone of the culinary scene from 2006 until its closing in 2014. The LAX design is founded in the original restaurant’s brand-driven ideals: handcrafted and earthy, straightforward yet sophisticated. Moving beyond the decorator-design approach for a design that is uncompromisingly contemporary, the material palette conveys organic warmth and closeness to the earth without defaulting to wood. Saddle-colored leather banquettes rest against olive-green penny round tile; rice paper-esque lights framed in shoji-like screens add an undertone of Japanese sensibility; and the tactile copper bar wears with every touch, growing softer with age.

Every element is sized in relation to the concourse: the primary sign is precisely located with its dimensions maximized between lease-line and column-visibility parameters to create a recognizable iconic marker that draws travelers from the Terminal 5 entrance tunnel up the ramp to the entrance, located on the far end of the lease space.

Ford’s Filling Station shares this entrance with the L.A. Times Newsstand, which takes the same cascaded-scale approach: different logos — one large, another sideways — sign the newsstand for clarity and legibility at every distance. The newsstand also features a touchscreen feed to the L.A. Times website, one of the first locations at LAX to utilize this technology.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Client	Areas USA
Project Type	Airport Full-Service Restaurant, Bar, Retail
Location	Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 5, Los Angeles, CA
Status	Completed 2013
Size	2,300 SF / 600 SF

Homeboy Café

The largest gang intervention program in the nation, Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and recently incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community. The model of job training combined with comprehensive wrap-around services, all in a community of acceptance and growth, creates a catalyst for change, leadership and hope.

Our design concept was to bring Los Angeles street art into the space. We created a neutral framework inspired by the tough materials of LA streets: ribbed concrete-colored tile and textured stainless steel. Homeboy Industries recommended Fabian Debora, their longtime counselor and artist, to create the ceiling mural ‘Inner Self Inner Voice.’

CSA developed and produced the signage and ‘About Homeboy’ graphic and facilitated construction of the ceiling mural.

CATEGORY	INFORMATION
Client	Areas USA
Project Type	Airport Coffee Bar
Location	Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 4, Los Angeles, CA
Status	Completed 2013
Size	1,100 sq. feet

Category: Restaurants & Retail

The Grant Bar