BEST: The Tilt Building
MD
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SITE Architecture & Design (Sculpture in the Environment)
James Wines
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In 1972 SITE was commissioned by BEST Products Company to design a series of nine shopping center buildings. Since ‘big box’ retail structures are ubiquitous in the public domain, people’s reflex acceptance of their archetypal presence has been used to invert and change its meaning. Instead treating the BEST stores as conventionally ‘designed’ architecture, their rectangular profiles are used as a ‘subject matter for art’ and a source of visual commentary on the American commercial strip. The building was removed during a Mall Renovation in 1997.
In 1972 SITE was commissioned by BEST Products Company to design a series of nine shopping center buildings. Since ‘big box’ retail structures are ubiquitous in the public domain, people’s reflex acceptance of their archetypal presence has been used to invert and change its meaning. Instead treating the BEST stores as conventionally ‘designed’ architecture, their rectangular profiles are used as a ‘subject matter for art’ and a source of visual commentary on the American commercial strip. The building was removed during a Mall Renovation in 1997.
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| Civic Building at Veteran's Plaza | 62.6 miles |
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| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / New Headquarters Project | 66.8 miles |
| The Lobby | 66.9 miles |
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| Albert Gallatin Statue | 67.5 miles |
| $100,000 Bill Issued by the U.S. Federal Reserve | 67.5 miles |
| Chester Alan Arthur became the President | 67.7 miles |
