The restaurant looks the same: an attractive, aim-to-please storefront defined by French doors, an eye-catching, wall-size sepia mural of the seaside at Long Beach circa 1900, and another wall that is host to 10 large gilt-framed mirrors.
The restaurant's focal point is its open kitchen framed by an eye-catching copper wall.
Jin East is a long, attractive storefront with two focal points: a semicircular bar and a sushi bar with an eye-catching back wall of smooth river rocks.
Hunter green and white striped wallpaper, an eye-catching brick wall, carpeting, white tablecloths, votive candles and pictures of Old World waiters in tuxedos characterize the look.
With its unpretentious but sharp design, combining recycled materials and eye-catching, graphic wall art, it's a chilled-out space for conversation and artistic exchange, much like Ampcafe Koenji (just the other side of the station, and run by BnA's artistic director, Kenji Daikoku).
The Athenaeum Just a stone's throw from the Grosvenor House Apartments on neighboring Green Park, you'll find the Athenaeum, a quirky suite hotel with art in all of the rooms and an eye-catching "living wall" of greenery on its facade.
Intersecting Khreshchatyk at right angles is the wide, poplar-lined Boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, on which stands the university with its eye-catching red-washed walls.
Ari Harkov (212) 381-4246, Warner Lewis (212) 381-6590, Halstead Property; halstead.com MAINTENANCE: $3,003 a month PROS: The living space has eye-catching exposed brick walls and open archways.
After all, it's been 20 years since Sissay's poems started appearing on the city's streets – whimsical verse painted on to a Rusholme pub, eye-catching lines on the wall of a takeaway – there is even one embedded into the stones of Tib Street in the city's Northern Quarter.
