Queens Nightclub: World Lounge
Astoria, Queens NY
Project Architect for Gertler Wente Associates
Featured in Polish Edition of Elle Decor
We were given the challenge of converting a run-down tire warehouse into a Greek nightclub. The owners wanted to divide the space into a dance floor and a more private cocktail lounge. We achieved this by locating the main bar and dance floor on the ground floor, and the cocktail lounge on a new second floor loft. A floating, glowing orb further distinguished the two spaces, allowing each its own identity while still retaining their communal connection, especially heightened every night at midnight when hundreds of white roses were tossed down onto the dancing throngs below.