Sexy Fish
BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON
COMPLETED 2015
Sexy Fish is a complex and elaborate flagship restaurant for the well-known Caprice Group. The works comprised the transformation of an old and tired Natwest bank, into a state of the art seafood restaurant and was one of the client’s largest ever investments.
OUR ROLE
Greenway Associates were commissioned by Caprice Holdings Ltd, having worked with them on the world famous Annabel’s club, just opposite on Berkeley Square. We provided cost planning, procurement services and detailed trade by trade cost reporting through the project.
THE PROJECT
The project was more a ‘piece of art’ than a normal ‘restaurant fit-out’. The client and the designers expected perfection from all the trades on site and wanted full control of the quality of installations. Therefore, Construction Management was utilised as the procurement route - with each and every subcontractor being employed directly.
PROJECT CHALLENGES
The greatest challenge for Greenway Associates was managing change, knock on impacts and the costs associated with these in what was a complex and demanding work site. The art and sculpture posed its own specific puzzle. Damien Hirst’s ‘Mermaids’, Frank Gehry’s ‘Crocodile’ & ‘Fish Lamps’ and the ceiling mural by Michael Roberts of Vanity Fair, all required considerable logistical awareness ranging from storage, security, transportation, enabling, installation and protection. In addition, the fish tanks in the private dining areas are the biggest indoor saltwater coral reef tanks in the world. The logistical entanglement can only be explained by these videos.
Finally, as is nearly always the case in a central London building site, the upper storeys of the building still had tenants in during the works, the building landlord was keenly involved all the way through the redevelopment, including a required UKPN substation upgrade.
Greenway Associates regularly get involved in working out the feasibility and costs of these types of installations months or years before the site works begin and we truly understand the knock on effects of tight building sites in prestigious areas of the city.
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IN THE PRESS
““the most lavish London restaurant in years””
““Richard Caring, Asian fusion’s very own Bond villain, has created his most ludicrous place yet””
““Haunt of the seriously super-rich””
THE LINE UP
Client: Caprice Holdings
Designer: Martin Brudnizki Design Studio
QS: Greenway Associates
Completed: 2016