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The article features Morimoto restaurant in New York. The two-level 13,000-square-foot spectacle represents the first Big Apple foray for both restaurateur Stephen Starr and architect Tadao Ando. The 50-foot-wide arched entry is draped with a fish-roe red PVC curtain. A rippling canvas-and-fiberglass ceiling, a resin-topped bar, a LED-lit wall of 17,400 half-liter plastic water bottles and beechwood furniture by Ross Lovegrove accompany Ando's signature concrete inside the restaurant.