Rooftop cocktail bar · BGC, Taguig
ConceptHiraya
An invented cocktail bar thirty floors above BGC, and a site where every part of the page leads to one thing: a table reserved from the page.
Visit the live siteWhat each marked part of the page does
The view does the selling
A film of the city at dusk runs behind everything, and the interface stays flat and quiet so the footage carries the mood. It is AI-generated, and the site says so in its footer.
The name is the headline
The main heading is the wordmark itself, with one plain line under it saying what the place is and where.
Open now, and tonight's sunset
The card works out whether the bar is open on Manila time, wherever the visitor is reading from, and computes that evening's sunset for the bar's own spot. In the booking, the seating nearest sunset is labelled as the one for the sunset.
One button, always in reach
Reserve a table is the only gold button on the page. The booking stand docks beside the content as the film scrolls away, so a table is one step from any line.
The job
- Made for
- A concept piece, not a paid commission. The bar, its menu and its story are invented, and its photos and film are AI-generated, which its own footer says.
- Built with
- Next.js, Prisma and Postgres, Framer Motion, Lenis
- Live at
- hiraya.studioreidel.com
A bar's site has one job worth paying for: turning someone who likes the look of the place into a reserved table. Hiraya was built to show that job done well, for a bar that does not exist. The name, the menu, the story and the address are all invented, so the design can be judged on its own.
The booking is the real part. It takes a date, a time and a party size, then a name and a way to reach you, and the server checks every request before saving it to a database, turning away a flood from one address before it does any work. If something fails, the guest is handed the bar's phone number instead of an error, and the confirmation never promises an email that is not sent.
Built to earn: table reservations, straight from the page.