A spacious, warmly lit bar with textured stone arches, columns, patterned flooring, and shelves stocked with bottles behind a long counter.

May 18, 2026

Words: Georgina McWhirter

Photography: Arjun Krishna

Inside A Cavernous Hybrid Concept Store, Restaurant, And Bar

Hot Shots: Atelier Astil

founder: Arpita Sharma
social: @atelierastil
project: Pregame, Bengaluru, India

standout: Since founding her Bengaluru firm six years ago at age 22—fresh out of college and armed with architecture and engineering degrees—Sharma has designed across numerous typologies. Her latest project blends the lot: a 10,000-square-foot hybrid concept store, restaurant, and bar. Hospitality and retail programming unfold in a choreographed sequence of volumes that draw from Egyptian cave formations and subterranean passages. The cavernous two-level environment feels excavated rather than constructed. It may read as primordial, but the interior is actually sheathed in a continuous skin of layered plaster and textured micro-cement to produce the effect of a carved monolith—a move that cleverly coheres the site’s dense forest of existing structural columns. atelierastil.com

  • A woman with long dark hair, wearing a light-colored blazer, rests her chin on her hand and looks directly at the camera against a plain background.
    Arpita Sharma.
  • A cafe interior with textured stone walls, arched windows, metal chairs with round brown cushions, and patterned tile flooring.
  • A bar with a textured stone counter, multiple beer taps, arched columns, warm lighting, and a single chair in the background.
  • The exterior of a modern building with large arched windows, greenery at the entrance, and a sign reading "PREGAME" on the facade.
  • A spacious, warmly lit bar with textured stone arches, columns, patterned flooring, and shelves stocked with bottles behind a long counter.

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