Casper Mueller Kneer transforms Vancouver warehouse into fashion store with metallic walls
Architecture firm Casper Mueller Kneer has created a concept store inside an old warehouse in Vancouver, designed around angled metallic walls and weathered concrete floors.
Leisure Center is based in a former envelope factory in Yaletown, an industrial part of the city. The concept store measures 20,000 square feet (1,860 square metres) over two storeys, with a collection of metallic walls on the upper level.
With offices in London and Berlin, Casper Mueller Kneer designed the concept store in the old art deco building. The architects took cues from its spacious, geometric interiors, and left the original concrete flooring and ductwork exposed.
The firm is also behind the design of Bermondsey's White Cube, an all-white gallery similarly housed inside a warehouse in London.
"The existing art deco building has a visually dominant structural grid and a beautiful concrete floor, which has the history of previous occupants inscribed into its layered and worn surface like a palimpsest," said CMK, which is also behind the design of the White Cube gallery in London's Bermondsey ? similarly housed inside an old warehouse.
A new wall system was designed for the Vancouver space, made from aluminium-clad L-shaped partitions that have a mirror-like finish. These metallic walls juxtapose the existing floors.
The silvery walls are arranged 45-degree angles to the existing grid of the warehouse. The design creates various pockets and crannies for future brands to set up w...
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