Pop Up London Restaurant Built From Borrowed Materials

Borrowed you say? Who borrows materials to build a restaurant? Apparently London designer <a href="http://www.carmodygroarke.com/projects/public/100.html" target="_blank">Carmody Groarke</a> did when he borrowed materials from one of the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/london-unveils-plans-for-queen-elizabeth-olympic-park/" target="_blank">London Olympic construction sites</a> to build a pop up restaurant atop a parking garage this last summer. Lasting only three weeks, Studio East Dining served up modern British cuisine with views of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/zaha-hadids-petroleum-research-center-ironically-aims-for-leed-platinum/" target="_blank">Zaha Hadid's</a> aquatic center, currently under construction. Built from borrowed scaffolding, wooden planks, construction lamps and translucent polyethylene, once the restaurant's time was up, the entire restaurant was deconstructed and materials were returned or recycled.

The pop up restaurant was built by Bistrotheque, who are experts in pop up spaces in London.

Studio East Dining was built atop of a parking garage that will soon be part of a mall.

The entire restaurant was constructed out of borrowed or recyclable materials.

Scaffolding was used to form the structure of the star-shaped building and translucent polyethylene covered the structure.

Each of the wings provided views of the nearby Olympic construction site and the Zaha Hadid's aquatic center.

Materials were also borrowed from the nearby construction sites.

Caisson planks were used to create the flooring, walls and family style tables.

For three weeks over the summer, the restaurant headed by chef Tom Collins served up modern British cuisine with seasonal foods.

The translucent skin let in a soft glow of daylight, until sunset where borrowed yellow cable construction lights fashioned into large chandeliers provided lighting.

At the end of the three weeks, the entire restaurant was dismantled.

All the materials were returned to the construction site and the polyethylene was recycled, leaving no trace of its three week existence behind.