Plywood is used to make cabinets, nooks and dividers inside this olive green retail store in Lower Manhattan that Brooklyn studio ABA has designed for London streetwear brand Maharishi.

Designed by architects Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak of Abruzzo Bodziak Architects? (ABA), the store in New York's Tribeca neighbourhood is Maharishi's first location outside London.
The US outpost measures 1,280 square feet (119 square metres) and has a rectangular plan with large windows facing the street.

ABA designed the plywood cabinetry as an intervention that would also preserve the space's historic details.
Original wood floors are painted in the same green shade, while historic white moulding and concrete remain left untouched.

"We left the existing space, with its historic facade and ceiling ? as a found condition," Bodziak said. "This highlights, by contrast, the new, olive green shop inserted within."

Inside, walls are covered in a gridwork of floor-to-ceiling cabinets and nooks made from the pine plywood.
The industrial material is mostly painted in green colour intended as a reference to Japanese gardens and military supply warehouses.

Some portions are left bare to expose the grain and golden tone, matching the wood that is also used to form clothes rods within the volumes.
"In this way, something straightforward ? warehouse-like shelving ? is imbued with character much in the same way that the brand's clothing reinterprets utility," Abruz...