Encounter

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Though it has been over 10 years since its opening, Encounter restaurant at the LAX theme building remains a fascinating example of total experience design. It’s nice when an architectural landmark can be re-contextualized to fit it’s own crazy space age reality thanks to interior design, sound design (is that Lalo Schifrin in the elevator?), and sophisticated-ly kitsch identity design (by Adams-Morioka).

Though the building is enduring some exterior work, the food is less inspiring and upkeep is not always keeping up, it is still an inspiring piece of LA. These kind of multi-sensory projects with such a strong look and feel are rare outside of family entertainment and make art of everyday life.

*update: the restaurant is sadly no more ☹️ – but check out another old blog post, project pages from designers Eddie Sotto and Sean Adams and a video walkthrough

One Response to " Encounter "

  1. Eddie Sotto says:

    Thank you for the kind words on the Encounter project. It was probably the most fun I had at Disney. Readers may be interested in our latest project that follows the same immersive level of detail. It’s featured with a link on the front page of our studio site. BTW- I left Disney ten years ago. We evolved into the latin 70’s with this one. did custom chairs and even bottles of tequila that fit on them. http://www.riverarestaurant.com

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