Nebula - London City Island, is a new hybrid cocktail bar and restaurant, located at the gateway to East London City Island, UK. The proposal by Common Ground Workshop has transformed a former restaurant and grocery space to offer a newly refurbished community-focused hub with an emphasis on exceptional hospitality, combined with flexible and casual café, retail and workspace facilities and a newly refurbished external terrace adjacent to the River Lea. The brief called for an overhaul to an existing bar, restaurant and retail space that was lacking cohesiveness, spatial connectivity and an overall identity, to provide a destination for the local community of London City Island. To create an efficient, cost effective and sustainable approach the scheme retains key existing services and infrastructure, and the new interior design proposal weaves around the existing building shell, providing a datum of timber linings, shelving and custom joinery set between existing concrete, curtain walling, brick and plasterboard surfaces. The design hinges on the use of timber surfaces in a variety of ways to provide for a custom bar, a bespoke restaurant screen, a curved bar and retail /display shelving, and a fluted timber wall lining.