BEST Products Company, Inc. – 1975
In 1972 SITE was commissioned by
BEST Products Company to design
a series of nine‘big box’ shopping
centers. Since these retail structures
are ubiquitous in the public domain,
people’s reflex acceptance of their
archetypal imagery has been used in
each case to invert and change the
meaning. Instead of approaching the
BEST buildings as conventionally
‘designed’ architecture, they are
treated as a ‘subject matter for art’
and a source of visual commentary
on the American commercial strip.
– Retail Store – Houston, TX – USA – 1975
– Façade brick pile
BEST Indeterminate Façade
– BEST Products Company, Inc.
– Retail Store – Houston, TX – USA – 1875 –
Parapet edge of the facade
BEST Tilt Building –
– Retail Store –
Towson, MD – USA –
1976 – Main view of facade
BEST Tilt Building –
BEST Products Company, Inc.
Towson, MD – USA – 1976 –
Main view of façade
from the highway
BEST Tilt Building –
– Towson, MD – USA –
1976 – Lifted doorway
BEST Parking
Lot Building –
Designed for
locations in Houston,
TX and Los Angeles,
CA – USA – 1976 –
Overview of the
project model
showing, a fusion
of the asphalt
parking lot with the
retail building
BEST Parking
Lot Building
Designed for
locations in
Houston, TX and Los Angeles,
CA – USA – 1976 –
Detail of the project model,
showing a fusion of
the asphalt parking
lot with the retail building
BEST Forest Building –
Richmond, VA – USA – 1980
Cutaway façade section,
allowing the
existing forest
to penetrate the
building as an
‘inside-outside’ experience
BEST Forest Building –
Richmond, VA – USA – 1980 –
Existing forest incorporated
as an intrinsic part
of the building
BEST Forest Building
Richmond, VA – USA – 1980 –
Existing forest as an
intrinsic part of
the building
BEST Forest Building
Houston, TX – USA –
Section of the façade
with glass terrarium
walls,
revealing sections of
the area’s geological strata
BEST Rainforest Building
– Hialeah, FL – USA – 1979
– Water wall façade at dusk
BEST Rainforest Building
– Hialeah, FL – USA – 1979 –
Detail of the water wall
and section of tropical
vegetation
BEST Notch Building
Sacramento, CA – USA – 1979 –
Extracted segment
of the façade, showing
the ‘wandering wall’
in its open position
BEST Notch Building –
– Sacramento, CA – USA – 1979 –
Mechanized façade section
in the process of
opening the entrance
to the building
BEST Inside/outside Building
– Miami, FL – USA –1994 –
Cut-away section of the façade
to reveal the layers of
normally enclosed
technology and merchandise
BEST Inside/outside Building
– Milwaukee, WI – USA – 1984 –
Inside/outside display
of store merchandise,
showing the transition from
real objects on the
interior to ghosted
counterparts as they pass
through the glass wall
Company, Inc. – Retail Store
– Milwaukee, WI – USA – 1984
– Inside/outside display
of store merchandise,
showing the transition from
real objects to ghosted
counterparts as they pass
through the glass wall
– Milwaukee, WI – USA – 1984 –
General view of the façade,
showing cut-away sections
and inside/outside merchandise
display
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