The design problem is to create interior spaces which choreographs a narrative derived from the Edward Hopper painting 'Nighthawks'. In a sense it is to translate the abstract qualities of ambience, enclosure and dialogue from the medium of paint on canvas to architectonics.
Reveals a sense of injured national pride, loss of national identity, coincides with the Pearl Harbor attacks. The space is without exit, while the cold artificial light penetrates the surrounding buildings.
Realistic colors but surreal hue and saturation, suggesting the schizophrenia of the city. The characters are lost in thought, but the weather is pleasant. Eliminates physical discomfort as a cause of their internal conflict.
Edward Hopper was one of the first artists to depict the newly invented fluorescent light in paintings, used as a metaphor of emptiness and transience.
The narrative is "The man in suit smokes and seduces, the other just wants his mum." The man smoking seems to suggest transience of his stay at the cafe, and of his relationship, just as the cigar advertisement on the cafe represents the transience of activity within. In contrast the other man seems tumor-like in is favorite seat, drowning in his sorrows.
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