07BEACH RECREATES THE NOSTALGIC PIXELATION OF OLD VIDEO GAMES
Architect Joe Chikamori from 07BEACH has recently completed ‘Kaishin No Ichigeki’, a video game-inspired ramen shop in Okinawa, Japan. The restaurant name, picked by the client, is a signature phrase from an old role-playing game (RPG) guaranteed to get locals nostalgic. The architectural design clearly references the pixellated and dot-like interface of these earlier video games, which Chikamori abstracted to a certain extent to avoid a cheap and childish aesthetic.