I remember when one was open in Delaware and it was in a brick building that looked nothing like tjis (it’s now a farmer’s market). Makes me wish I lived near one like this.
dayton-danglersays
Makes you wonder why all the companies today strive for homogeneity when they could be spending the same money to do cool shit like this. Who decided the American architectural landscape had to be so atrociously bland and monotonous? Every shitty suburb looks the same.
Diabolical_Rica says
So cool! I’d never heard of these before. Too bad we don’t see more creative things like this in the world.
daryl_hikikomori says
>After James Wines [BEST’s architect] witnessed his buildings disappear one by one from the suburban landscape, the architect who still runs his studio today, remarked that, “In France, this would never happen.”
gnuoyedonig says
Instead we have Fry’s and their crappy, tacked-on theme decoration.
ericisneat says
The only Big Box stores you study in architecture school. Such a shame they went out of business, really neat partis with a lot of character.
Monster6ix says
I used these as examples in a precedent study this year. Very fun ideas for boring box stores. The forest one still exists as a church facility.
tehZamboni says
I used to live by the Notch version of the store.
https://artchist.blogspot.com/2015/05/notch-showroom-best-en-sacramento-james.html
_Ping_- says
I remember when one was open in Delaware and it was in a brick building that looked nothing like tjis (it’s now a farmer’s market). Makes me wish I lived near one like this.
dayton-dangler says
Makes you wonder why all the companies today strive for homogeneity when they could be spending the same money to do cool shit like this. Who decided the American architectural landscape had to be so atrociously bland and monotonous? Every shitty suburb looks the same.
jetmark says
A bunch more here
https://www.archdaily.com/778003/the-intersection-of-art-and-architecture-the-best-products-showrooms-by-site-sculpture-in-the-environment