KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

CCD / Cheng Chung Design (HK)

ARCHITECTS
CCD / Cheng Chung Design (HK)

PROJECT NAME
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf

CLIENT
Suning Real Estate Group Co., Ltd.

STATUS
Built

AREA
1,600 square meters

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Nanjing, China

CATEGORY
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

The Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant "KUROGI", known as the hardest restaurant in Tokyo to make a reservation, opened a new premise in Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing. Designed by CDD, the restaurant provides a divine, Zen-like dining environment.

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

COURTYARD LANDSC

Bamboos, trees, waterscape and stones form poetic, serene courtyard landscape.

CDD subtly integrated Zen ideas, Oriental culture and natural elements into the stone path, tile landscape walls and bamboo grove, so as to creating a breathing environment filled with natural rhythms.

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

Nowadays, people are easily lost in the hustle and bustle of the world. The design team adopted minimalist design languages to create a simple, serene dining environment.

The restaurant is like an island floating on the garden. Whether sitting on the Japanese-style porch in the courtyard, or looking out through windows while dinning inside, guests can feel the Zen atmosphere brought by the mirror-like waterscape.

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

The water seems still, but actually flows slowly, evoking infinite imagination.

Integration between the interior and outdoors
The design adopted simple materials, abandoned sophisticated details and artificial carving. The wooden structural "boxes" are topped with flat eaves to blend into nature with a low profile.

The wooden tables and chairs, tatami rooms, characteristic Japanese-style wallpapers and textured wall finishes create unique visual experiences, and reveal the traditional, classy elegance of the Japanese restaurant.

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

The slender skylight is a design highlight. As sunlight penetrates the skylight and casts shadows, the scene is as aesthetic as the ones described by Junichiro Tanizaki, a famous Japanese writer.

The faint and varying light and shadows produce a poetic ambience. The Oriental aesthetics in the space fully embodies the quintessence of elegance.

This Japanese restaurant is defined by simplicity, clarity and profundity.

KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing
KUROGI at Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort, Nanjing

It incorporates Zen and wabi-sabi aesthetics that reveals poetry in imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness.