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The entrance to Anik Café on the corner at night: the restored light façade, the black divided-light glass door and the lit interior.

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No. 02 · Autumn 2026Interior design

Campana, Buenos AiresA former dry cleaner’s on an early 20th-century corner, turned into a neighbourhood café

MoodboardWood, sage green, natural fibres and black

Anik Café

Real project106 m²

The original façade on the corner: painted brown, with the metal shutter down and graffiti.

Before

Fig. 01The corner before the works: brown façade and openings closed off with metal shutters.

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Anik CaféReal project

01 — The project

Reclaiming a corner

An early 20th-century Italianate building opens up to the city again.

The project began on a traditional corner of Campana, at Gral. Belgrano and 9 de Julio: a building with a chamfered corner, a moulded cornice and a central ornament above the entrance.

For years it was a dry cleaner’s and gradually lost its character: a brown façade, openings shut behind graffitied metal shutters, and an interior of high ceilings and patterned tiles filled with ironing machines and clothes rails.

Bringing the corner back to life without losing the memory of the building.TÁNDER Studio

Location: Campana, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Area: 106 m²
Original use: Dry cleaner’s
Current use: Café
Duration: 4 months

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TÁNDERThe plan

Café plan: bar and takeaway by the corner entrance, a room with a communal table, a second room with a built-in bench and armchairs, kitchen, toilets and tables on the pavement under the plane trees.

Elevation A-A: the bar, the divided-light glass door, the wooden wall and the hanging plant lamp under the high ceiling.

Elevation B-B: the bar with stools, the hanging plant lamp and the three arches with murals above the built-in bench.

Fig. 02–04Plan and elevations A-A and B-B: the plant lamp over the bar and the arches above the built-in bench.

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Anik CaféThe plan

02 — The intervention

Open to the city

Across its 106 m², the design brings out the existing architecture.

You enter through the corner. Next to the entrance is the bar, with the pastry display, the drinks fridge and a delivery and takeaway window onto the street; behind it, the prep and cooking kitchen.

A large communal table fills the first room. In the second, an upholstered bench under the arches and an armchair corner; at the back, the toilets. Outside, the pavement adds 34 seats under the plane trees on the corner.

01Entrance on the corner
02Bar
03Delivery and takeaway
04Room with communal table
05Built-in bench
06Armchair corner
07Kitchen: prep and cooking
08Toilets
09Pavement: 34 seats
10Planters under the plane trees

A neighbourhood café that looks out onto the street again.TÁNDER Studio

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TÁNDERThe façade

03 — The façade

A light tone for the cornice

The façade was restored in a light tone that brings out the cornices, rustication and ornaments. The openings were recovered with black divided-light joinery and, together with the shutters, light metal awnings were designed.

The pavement becomes part of the space, with outdoor tables and wooden planters under the plane trees on the corner.

View from Belgrano street: rusticated façade, cornice, divided-light windows and the Anik sign above the entrance.

View from 9 de Julio street: the entrance on the corner and the long façade with two windows.

Fig. 05–06Views from Belgrano and 9 de Julio streets.

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The corner at dusk: the façade restored in a light tone, the lit entrance on the corner, tables on the pavement and the plane trees.

After

Fig. 07The corner of Gral. Belgrano and 9 de Julio, with the pavement full of tables.

7Interior design

Project moodboard: natural wood, sage green, fibre lamp, hanging planter, arched mural with a coffee pot, blue upholstered bench, black divided-light door and geometric tiles.

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Anik CaféMaterials

04 — Materials

Warm and natural

Wood, sage green and plants, with light softened by natural fibres.

WoodCladding and solid tables
Sage greenWalls
Arches with muralsCoffee motifs
Natural fibresLight fittings
PlantsPendant lamp from the ceiling
UpholsteryBuilt-in bench
BlackDivided-light joinery

Inside, the aim was a warm, natural atmosphere. Wood cladding sits alongside sage green walls and arches that frame murals with coffee motifs.

The lighting combines natural-fibre fittings, accent pendants and lines of warm light along the bar and the furniture.

The arches with murals of coffee pots and beans, above the upholstered bench.

Fig. 08The arches frame murals with coffee motifs.

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Inside the dry cleaner’s: ironing machines, hanging clothes and patterned tiles under a high ceiling.

Before

Fig. 09The dry cleaner’s: high ceilings and patterned tiled floors, filled with machines and clothes rails.

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Anik CaféBefore

05 — Before

A neighbourhood dry cleaner’s

For years the premises were a dry cleaner’s. The building had lost its character: the façade was painted brown and the openings were shut behind metal shutters covered in graffiti.

Inside, the high ceilings and patterned tiles were hidden behind ironing machines and clothes rails. The four-month works brought that architecture back into view.

An ironing table next to the original French window.

Clothes rails with garments and bags on the patterned tiled floor.

The dry cleaner’s counter in front of an old door with shutters.

The corner from the street, with the brown façade and the metal shutters.

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The main room: arches with murals above the built-in bench, a wooden wall with plants, solid wood tables and pendant lamps.

TÁNDERAfter

Fig. 14Wood, sage green and plants: the room with the arches and the built-in bench.

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Anik Café

A place
to stay a while.

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TÁNDERDetails

The bar by the window, with bentwood stools, natural-fibre lamps and a view of the tables on the pavement.

06 — Made for staying

Light, wood and plants

A hanging plant lamp drops from the ceiling. An upholstered built-in bench, solid wood tables and handwritten chalkboards complete a space designed for staying a while.

The result is a contemporary neighbourhood café that brings the corner back to life without losing the memory of the building.

Project: TÁNDER Studio
Location: Campana, Buenos Aires
Area: 106 m²
Duration: 4 months

Fig. 15The window bar, under the fibre lamps.

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Anik CaféDetails

The wooden wall with handwritten chalkboards, shelves with plants and the hanging planter from the ceiling.

Fig. 17The bar and its display case.

The way through to the toilets, with black glazed joinery, a wooden wall and a potted plant.

Tables beside a large tropical plant, under the fibre lamps.

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