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Matti Wikberg says that the idea for this restaurant had been growing in their minds for a long time and it was just a matter of finding the right location. The restaurant is located at Eteläesplanadi 20, a historical and protected building with large glass walls and many different ceiling heights, some reaching up to seven metres. To acquire the space, which is owned by Dutch property investment company CBRE, BW Restaurants entered a bidding contest alongside five other companies and were chosen as the ideal tenant for the space. The major design challenge of the entire project was the kitchen with the low ceiling height. The basis for the interior design of the space was to respect the classic look and feel it has while making the most of the height and glass walls which reach all the way to the ceiling and bring the street life in, and the restaurant life outside. The interior designer was the same as for Farang, Matti’s brother Risto of Futu Design. Audio is an important feature in restaurants and Matti says they wanted to see how an active system would work in Bronda. The brand choice for the audio system was obvious: “As we wanted to have a Finnish brand and the best available in the market, we didn’t really have to think twice about going for Genelec.” Matti also confesses to being a Genelec fan in his private life, too, with 5.1 system installed at his home and he continues: “I www.genelec.com BRONDA - THE TASTE, SOUND AND LOOK OF HELSINKI CASE STUDY Bronda, is a brasserie-style restaurant recently opened by BW Restaurants in Helsinki. It is the fifth and latest addition to the prestigious line of restaurants owned by Matti Wikberg and Tomi Björck and joins their famous Farang restaurants in Stockholm and Helsinki, and Gaijin and Boulevard Social which are also a favourite with diners in the Finnish capital.
Transcript of case sTudy Bronda - genelec.com · and Tomi Björck and joins their famous Farang restaurants in...
Matti Wikberg says that the idea for this restaurant
had been growing in their minds for a long time and
it was just a matter of finding the right location. The
restaurant is located at Eteläesplanadi 20, a historical
and protected building with large glass walls and
many different ceiling heights, some reaching up to
seven metres. To acquire the space, which is owned
by Dutch property investment company CBRE, BW
Restaurants entered a bidding contest alongside five
other companies and were chosen as the ideal tenant
for the space.
The major design challenge of the entire project was
the kitchen with the low ceiling height. The basis for
the interior design of the space was to respect the
classic look and feel it has while making the most of
the height and glass walls which reach all the way to
the ceiling and bring the street life in, and the restaurant
life outside. The interior designer was the same as for
Farang, Matti’s brother Risto of Futu Design.
Audio is an important feature in restaurants and Matti
says they wanted to see how an active system would
work in Bronda. The brand choice for the audio system
was obvious:
“As we wanted to have a Finnish brand and the best
available in the market, we didn’t really have to think
twice about going for Genelec.” Matti also confesses
to being a Genelec fan in his private life, too, with
5.1 system installed at his home and he continues: “I
www.genelec.com
Bronda - The TasTe, sound and look of helsinki
case sTudy
Bronda, is a brasserie-style restaurant recently opened by BW Restaurants in Helsinki. It is
the fifth and latest addition to the prestigious line of restaurants owned by Matti Wikberg
and Tomi Björck and joins their famous Farang restaurants in Stockholm and Helsinki, and
Gaijin and Boulevard Social which are also a favourite with diners in the Finnish capital.
am very pleased that we got
to work on this project with
Genelec.” The space itself seems
somewhat challenging for audio,
but with separate systems for
different spaces in the restaurant,
the end result works well: the
quality of sound needs to remain
constant in the different spaces
on different volume levels. As you
can imagine, a seven meter high dining hall, cocktail
bar, the cabinets and the terrace outside all require
slightly different things from audio and Genelec offered
products to match this flexibility requirement perfectly.
The different areas of the restaurant are flexible, too: the
cabinets can be shared to three smaller areas or used
as one large space, which seats up to 60 people.
A Crestron control system for the project was designed
by Presson Oy of Espoo, and audio processing,
correction filters and bass management were achieved
using Symetrix Radius processors. Bronda offers a
French, Italian, and Spanish-influenced menu, or just
cocktails at the bar – always combined with excellent
sound re-production with Genelec.
www.genelec.com
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