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