The Melville Bar
The bar is named after William Melville, (born 1876) the engineer and architect who designed the building for The Glasgow & South Western Railway company in 1900.
The bespoke bar design draws inspiration from the building’s barrel arched vaulted ceilings. Paying homage to the building’s shapes, accentuates its features more. The design introduces a rhythmic series of vertical ribs behind the bar at a lower human scale level. This brings the grandeur of the ceiling down and creates a complementary blend between the architecture and the interior design. The user enters the bar area after experiencing the interactive strings in the web of strings corridor. The fluted ceiling in that corridor also inspired this shape.
