Architecture and interior design firms: Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados, Concepto Taller de Arquitectura, and Pin Studio, Mexico City

The details: “We were asked to design the restaurant based on a movie of our choosing,” says Guillermo Suarez Almazán, partner at local firm Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados, which teamed up with Concepto Taller de Arquitectura and Pin Studio on the 2,150-square-foot restaurant. The team settled on Christopher Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar with the objective “to convert the void into content, intertwining time and space to abstractly create a visually spectacular environment,” he adds. Assembled in only three days, the finished concept evokes outer space with 250,000 LED lights that cover the ceilings and walls. “Mirror tables allow the diner to feel reflected in the starry sky,” Almazán says. Meanwhile, the lobby invites patrons into an alternate universe with an arrangement of floating books that reference the film’s climax.

This article originally appeared in HD’s October 2020 issue.