Tucked away from Hyderabad’s urban buzz, Loqa is conceived as a world unto itself.
Designed by Sona Reddy Studio, the 38-seat bar occupies a narrow 1,250-square-foot footprint yet feels immersive and transportive. Reddy describes the space as a “timeless elsewhere,” an intentional in-between that resists the pull of trends.
Loqa transports guests to the in-between
Rather than anchoring the bar to a specific era, the design suspends it outside of time. A dense canopy of bamboo rods floats overhead, forming an abstract ceiling that modulates scale while softening acoustics. The installation creates intimacy without enclosure, hovering like a charged field above the room.
Below, rich green marble envelops the space, wrapping walls, bar surfaces, and tabletops in a continuous material. Its deep tone and subtle sheen ground the room, counterbalancing the ethereal ceiling with a sense of weight and permanence. The marble is laid in a nonuniform grid, with joints becoming graphic elements that animate the surface and break visual monotony. Embedded hemispherical marble forms introduce tactility, catching light and casting shifting shadows throughout the evening.
Intentional, subdued lighting
Lighting is deliberately restrained. Rather than washing the room, it isolates moments, grazing off stone edges and textured surfaces. The result is a setting that feels private and inward-looking, as if carved from a single mass.
At the bar back, stepped displays and understated illumination add to the atmosphere of quiet intrigue, while flickering television monitors introduce cryptic nostalgia.
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