Astet Studio has completed Lazy Lion, a new cocktail bar housed within the Adria Palace, a landmark historic building in Budapest. The project sets out to create a tension between old and new: where the palace projects architectural authority, Lazy Lion answers with something wilder and more expressive. Setting the tone at the barThe bar area serves as a formal introduction to Lazy Lion. An immersive main dining room at Lazy LionThe passage connecting the bar to the main room functions as more than circulation. The main room represents the project’s most ambitious design statement.