bowling club in Kaliningrad Sergey Shchetanyuk Angar of a sports and recreation center, turned by the architect into a bowling club with an interior for bowling

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Text: Nadezhda Serebryakova

A photo: Alexey Kittsyn

Architect: Sergey Schetanyuk

Magazine: Na (47) 2001

The popularity of bowling, along with roller skating, has recently increased markedly. This is probably due to the fact that today's young people have become more athletic and prefer energetic and healthy forms of recreation. There are more and more new bowling clubs, and their attendance largely depends on the interior, and therefore on the atmosphere that it creates. One of the most interesting design clubs opened in Kaliningrad (Dmitriy Donskoy St., 19). The customer really wanted to turn an ordinary hangar of a fitness center into something exciting, enthralling visitors. A lot of ideas were proposed, including on the title. Inspired by the film “From Dusk Till Dawn,” the customer first wanted to get something similar with the same name, then the topic was replayed and as a result, the bowling was called Babylon. The design of this two-story room is fundamentally made of inexpensive natural materials, there is no imitation, props. Dominated by metal and tarpaulin. Bar counter and furniture are made of them. Also interesting design fixtures. The author of the interior personally made them from the mounting foam on the metal frame. Under the ceiling, to give the club an extraordinary, they decided to hang the car. An old "Moskvich" was found on the street, completely dismantled in the workshop and fitted with "tiger" fur. As a result of a long search, the task of the author and customer to plunge visitors into a whirlpool of exciting action in an unusual interior for bowling was a success, and it is important that this was done with minimal financial outlay, but with maximum creative impact.