design indian eatery Serie Architects of Mumbai transformed abandoned buildings at the city racecourse into a complex of restaurants and bars that abstract the enveloping shade trees By Michael Webb Photography by Edmund Sumner Kapil Gupta and Chris Lee, the partners in Serie, took their cues from nature and recreated the dense canopy of rain trees as an indoor forest of welded steel I-beams (opposite) that serve as a truss to support the new roof (above). 38 contract november/december 2009 www.contractmagazine.com
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