Espresso Bar

STA Office Architecture - Espresso Bar - Veroni & Co.

STA Office is an architectural practice based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, established in 2016. The Office applies its knowledge, work, and sensibilities to design projects across a range of scales and building typologies, seeking clear and transformative outcomes. The practice was founded by Architect, Seng Tsoi.

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Private commission; completed 2024

Espresso bar

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

1,214 SF [113 SM]

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Veroni & Co. is a coffee company that prides itself on meticulously crafted coffee drinks. Since 2016, the company has been developing and honing its coffee craft; as its foray and flagship store, this project will share and bring to life this dedicated work.

Our design approach was to translate the brand’s aesthetics into a space that would complement the experience of its coffee offerings.

We chose to reveal the texture of the existing concrete columns and structural floor slab – a variation of textured greys. We found this concrete’s raw and imperfect nature to be a contrasting yet perfect pairing to the exacting and detailed nature of the proposed built elements – six objects, each for a specific planned customer area. Each object is clad in metal – raw, slightly reflective, and precisely milled and cut. Each object has a particular purpose, allowing you to experience its metal finish in relationship to your body in a multitude of ways. The metal is intended to be worn, acquiring a patina of daily activity yet maintaining its characteristic strength. To further enhance the presence of these objects, they sit low in the space, and a datum was created above these elements by rendering the walls and ceiling a flat black, creating a quiet background of depth.

The pure and precise nature of these built objects bridges this new space to the brand’s mantra on coffee and coffee making.