Comments on: West Beach Cafe by Asif Khan

By: UmmKulthum

UmmKulthum — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:07:25 +0000

would have been more amazing if the floor could be extended, to double the space! but its just an okay design :)

By: rayan

rayan — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:01:18 +0000

amaaaaaazing bruv its really good.

By: Monica Effendy

Monica Effendy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:17:10 +0000

It’s a nice tiny cafe..I read asif’s west beach cafe in abitare magazine..
the idea about how to make a cafe itself to transform as a stage is very good.. I also like the door detail
it’s not cheap to me….
keep creating, asif!

monica
arch. assistant at dp architects singapore..

By: Brookes Student

Brookes Student — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:40:24 +0000

i went with my university to visit the cafe and met asif there. its quite interesting the points that have been made so far. Example, the point about a builder being able to do this on their own without an architect, is actually quite similar to what asif said; Para phrasing, “we had a close relationship (working mainly only with one builder) i had trust in the builder working on the project and felt confident to let him deal with some of the construction issues.”

Also, the cheap comments. It WAS ridiculously cheap to construct and i think this is one of its major positive points. The steel frames were made literally 400 yards down the road, another interesting point is that the building isnt “heated,” using only the heat from the cooking equipment, whether this works in reality we didnt get an opportunity to find out.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:43:51 +0000

I agree that this is a very nice piece of minimal architecture, even if it doesn’t match some people’s idea of what’s fashionable at the moment. This building makes me want to go to Littlehampton just to eat some ships there.

Whoever was grumbling about cold bridges obviously didn’t notice that this thing is supposed to be open to the elements; and the barrier deals with safety issues quite neatly.