Porch house and low gray dining room around a brick court

Built Work · Charleston, South Carolina

Tu, 430 Meeting Street

Architect: Craft Design Studio, PLLC
Team: Kenny Craft, Principal ArchitectBrian Mork, Project Architect
Interior Design: Joshua WalkerDuolan Li
Press: Post & CourierCharleston Eater

Two very different buildings share a brick court on Meeting Street. One is a two story house with double porches, blue siding and a red metal roof. The other is a low gray dining room with a dark metal roof, a shaped parapet and one round window. A dark connector with tall dark-framed windows joins them and holds the corner of the court.

Inside the low building, the color turns up. Burnt orange banquettes run down both walls under a cluster of white globes, on a speckled terrazzo style floor. A dark green stone bar sits at the far end.

The round window frames the porches from the booth below it, so the two halves of the project stay in view of each other.

Long view of the dining room with its round window and metal roof

Two story porch house with white railings and a red metal roof

Porches lit at night beside the dark connector

Tall dark-framed window glowing at night

Shaped parapet and dark gutter against the sky

Dining room with orange banquettes, white tables and globe lights

Dining room looking toward tall dark-framed windows, with flowers on the bar

Round window above a banquette, framing the porch house

Channeled orange banquette on a speckled floor

Line rendering of the court, the porch house and the dining room

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