- Type
- Rooftop pub & lounge
- Size
- 6,000 sq ft
- Location
- VIP Road, Kolkata
- Completed
- February 2024
Two disconnected volumes joined in four moves: connect them, cut a skylight, add the MS staircase and canopy, then lift a deck over the mezzanine.
Guest and staff flow set before anything was ordered.
Section through the rooftop, every zone labelled: canopy, balloon, DJ booth, the air-conditioned inner section, the elevated pizza counter, mezzanine deck and skylight.
Exploded axonometric — rooftop, mezzanine and service levels pulled apart.
Astro Babu's balloon, resolved as a fabricable MS frame.
Twenty feet of storage segments on a central axis.
Structure complete, finishes starting.
Arched window frames going in.
A porthole glazed and backlit, the wall around it still unfinished.
The balloon pendant's wire frame, offered up against the plywood porthole wall.
Lime plaster going on by hand, the porthole windows already cut.
Assembled on the roof, ten floors up.
One full revolution every ten seconds, clad in stone veneer and PVD brass over the MS frame.
Seating detail at the counter.
Lit from within, and the reason people climb the stairs.
Catching the light off the city.
Backlit model aircraft ranked across the wall above the DJ deck.
The identity, backlit on the ribbed wall.
The washroom corridor — Dada, ektu dekhi! in neon, Bengali for “let me have a look, brother”, against backlit circular reliefs.
The indoor section — paper planes on wires, origami balloon pendants, and the aircraft wall beyond.
Seating as airport-lounge zones.
150 sq ft of premium deck, 360 degrees of Kolkata.
One continuous room, from the air.
The Runway — the mezzanine deck.
The rooftop from the air, the only way to see it whole: the lit globe over the terrace, the sign along the parapet, the city flat behind.