ALL SAINTS CAFÉ & Roastery
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
2021
Housed within a brick warehouse in Brooklyn, All Saints reinterprets the industrial shell as a contemporary social and cultural space. The project preserves the raw authenticity of the existing structure—its brick walls, exposed steel, and layered patina—while introducing new architectural insertions in wood, metal, and light.
A new brick façade extension redefines the street presence of the building. The bricks are rotated and patterned, forming a tactile, porous surface that plays with sunlight and shadow. Behind it, a semi-outdoor garden forecourt—the finca—acts as an in-between space, a planted threshold between street and interior, offering informal seating among greenery.
Inside, the original warehouse volume has been extended vertically to create a vast, skylit space. A large central roof opening brings daylight deep into the café, illuminating a suspended wooden volume clad in acoustic plywood that forms the listening lounge—a warm, introspective core at the heart of the project. Positioned between the front service area and the rear roasting zone, the lounge mediates sound, activity, and atmosphere.
Stainless steel defines the bar, counters, and much of the custom furniture, reflecting the rough textures of the existing brick and concrete surfaces. The material dialogue between polished metal, raw masonry, and warm wood creates a balance between precision and imperfection, between industrial memory and contemporary craft.
Above, a mezzanine houses an office and training center, overlooking the operations below. Together, the layers of the project—the street-side garden, the open café, the intimate lounge, and the working roastery—form a spatial continuum. All Saints is conceived as a place of making, gathering, and listening—an evolving intersection of architecture, ritual, and everyday life.
Project Team
Leonidas Trampoukis, Eleni Petaloti, Natalia Sotirchou