Retail (LED) Revolution!
I always tell my retail clients that color is free and it is one of the most important identifiers for a brand. Until now however color was static, retailers would print a poster, or hang a sign and...
View ArticleCiti Bike: A Platoon of Blue Brands New York
On a recent trip to New York I saw a plethora of blue bikes around the city. Emblazoned with the Citi Bike moniker dozens of racked bikes were stationed waiting to be ridden while a platoon of two...
View ArticleRestaurant Innovation Across America!
New restaurant concepts are challenging the industry’s most established brands. There is a restaurant Renaissance taking place in America. These new venues have innovative food concepts, unique...
View ArticleThe Department Store Discovers Glass
The blank walled fortress paradigm is dead! After sixty years of blank walled-off fortresses department stores are introducing glass facades into their stores and reconnecting to the communities they...
View ArticleDrexel Banishes the Brick!
Orange brick is out in favor of glass curtain walls and limestone rain-screens. It used to be that if you were lost in West Philadelphia and near red brick buildings you were on Penn’s campus and if...
View ArticleParking Garages are Driven to Higher Design
These Utilitarian structures make a great canvases for Architecture Expression Gone are the days when parking garages are supposed to look like staid buildings with brick veneer facades and punched...
View ArticleBranding the Strip
Design Invades Fast Food Architecture of SuburbiaIts been over forty years since the architect Robert Venturi, along with Scott-Brown and Izenour wrote the seminal work Learning from Las Vegas where...
View ArticleArchitecture of Fins / aka / Fin-Tek-Ture
Fins are the new architecture style obsession In the post-industrial, post-information internet age we live in, architects are searching for ways to bring detail and a sense of craft back into their...
View ArticleWhite Accents in a Gray World
How new buildings in Seattle are capturing a unique sense of place. Helios Apartments, 2nd & Pine St. Seattle I’ve had the opportunity to visit Seattle in the last year and have observed an...
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