Elliott+Associates Architects

POPS, ARCADIA, OKLAHOMA

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 12/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

"There's always a 'gimmick' on Route 66," says principal Rand Elliott of this bubbly roadside attraction located on the legendary highway. The pit stop pays homage to the gas-and-food stations of yesteryear with a 66-foot-high soda-bottle sculpture, encircled with LEDs that change color every evening. Inside the 5,500-square-foot burger-serving behemoth, some 12,000 regular-size soda bottles in every imaginable color line shelves along a floor-to-ceiling window wall. There's also a retail store, old-fashioned soda machines, and an outdoor patio. And all of this sits under the pop stand's second biggest statement: a cantilevered steel canopy extending 110 unsupported feet. Talk about sweet.

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standout Shades of red and orange in the bar and dining areas evoke the colors of ornamental carp, which also lend this 8,000-square-foot multilevel restaurant its name.

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standout Irregularly spaced wood laths run up the walls and across the ceiling of the dining room, where printed panels feature time-related quotations from Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, and Marcel Proust.

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standout At 863 square feet, this diminutive restaurant features overhead panels made from three different eras of tin ceiling, all uncovered during demolition.