Designed by architects Azman Owens Architects (Joyce Owens’ London based Architectural Partnership 1993-2003) the shop – which sells cakes, bread and savouries – is a far cry from the lino-floor and plastic-shelves-lined-with-white-sliced bread type of establishment that the description suggests.
Passing between inside the shop and outside a toughened glass panel has been set into the pavement giving a view into the cake decorating area below. On the other side of the entrance door a small display box in the window is a perfect place for showing off that day’s biscuits or … famous couture cakes.
Inside the shop the original timber floor has been restored and the brick walls left with their richly patinated marks of age. Against this backdrop the architects have inserted a number of contrasting new elements. These include the maple-topped shelf for bread, the in-situ cast-concrete cash desk and the long stone-topped serving counter.
At the back of the shop is the most startling new intervention: a little glazed mezzanine office perched up on steel beams. Beyond this is the savoury kitchen while downstairs is the wholesale bakery.
-Blueprint Magazine, December 1998
"This is Azman Owens’ third project for the baker…The Konditor & Cook Bakery shop—which sells cakes, bread and savouries—is a far cry fro the lino-floor and plastic-shelves-lined-with-white-sliced type of establishment that the description suggests. Now, the architects are becoming known as the designer dream team to Waterloo’s fashionable elite.”
— Blueprint Magazine, December 1998.
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