Thinking Outside The Big Box – So BEST
19. Mar, 2014 
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BEST was the best.  they were like the Best Buy of their time.  little did I know that at one point, they also had THE best buildings EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the architectural firm SITE created 9 unique buildings for BEST
Peeling Project, Richmond, Virginia, 1971
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Intermediate Facade Building, Houston, Texas, 1974
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Notch Showroom, Sacramento, California, 1977
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Tilt Showroom, Towson, Maryland, 1978
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Cutler Ridge Showroom, Miami, Florida, 1979
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Anti-Sign, Ashland, Virginia, 1979
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Hialeah Rainforest Showroom, Hialeah, Florida, 1979
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Forest Showroom, Richmond, Virginia, 1980
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Inside/Outside Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984
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unknown location, Washington DC area
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sadly, none of those buildings look like that anymore, eggcept for the Forest Showroom one which is now a church!!!!!
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but SITE wasn’t the only firm to make BEST buildings
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi -Â Langhorne, Pennsylvania, 1978
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sadly, these guys were never built!
Parking Lot Building by SITE, 1977
1977 — Anthony J. Lumsden
The Earth, the Temple, and the Goods (unbuilt), 1979 — Robert A.M. Stern
1979 — Charles W. Moore
1979 — Michael Graves
1979 — Allen Greenberg
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check out this short documentary on the BEST stores designed by SITE. directed and produced by Howard Silver
h/t Wandrlust | Arqueologia del Futuro | Cultural Ghosts | Super Rad Now
