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AP 2030. Photo © Alan Karchmer

identity by sheathing it in large, staggered window frames includes many local eateries. The restaurant was built by
that create a super-scaled image of a brick running bond— Hospitality Construction. Haikan’s owners also operate
a feature that references nearby brick-clad buildings while Daikaya and Bantam King, a pair of popular Chinatown
creating floor-to-ceiling windows for building residents. ramen shops that Miller also designed.
One of MA’s newest New York buildings, 70 Henry Street The design for Haikan—a Japanese word meaning
in Brooklyn, is set to use a similar scheme. AP 2030 evokes piping or pipework, in reference to the restaurant’s location
the design of industrial buildings via metal channels set in the Atlantic Plumbing development—responds to the
into the facades, the use of factory sash windows, and parent building’s industrial chic design aesthetic. In
interior details such as cork flooring in the hallways and addition, Miller says, Haikan’s design is intended to pay
elevator doors that are etched in a pattern resembling that homage to two architectural movements that are now
of doors in an older commercial structure. The building disappearing—Metabolism, a Japanese take on Modernist
has about 4,700 square feet of street-level retail space. design that was influential from 1959 to the early 1970s,
Characterizing AP 2030’s design as more restrained when ramen’s popularity began to spread and the
than that of the larger rental building, MA says it Sapporo-style of Ramen served at Haijan was developed,
“combines modern and post-industrial design elements and Brutalism, a style found here in Washington that, like
expressive of the neighborhood’s offbeat character.” The some Metabolist buildings, features a starkly muscular
building, MA says, “appeals to a more established and use of concrete. To help research his designs for Haikan
mature demographic looking to be a part of this dynamic and Bantam King, Miller traveled with the restaurants’
neighborhood’s transformation.” owners to Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, where
One of Shaw’s newest eateries is Haikan, a ramen shop Sapporo is located.
that occupies part of the retail space in Atlantic Plumbing’s Fluted concrete blocks that were put back into
rental building. The 2,120-square-foot restaurant, which production for the Haikan project form two of the eatery’s
can seat about 55 inside and another 30 or more at a long interior walls, including one behind the bar counter, where
communal table outside, was designed by Brian Miller, the deep flutes provide niches for bottles. The triangular
senior project designer at Edit Lab at Streetsense, a firm wooden coffered ceiling, which directs light and helps to
located in Shaw’s Blagden Alley whose design work control noise, was inspired by the triangular design motif

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