Over 13,000 flattened aluminium cans decorate the facade of Dutch fashion label Daily Paper's inaugural shop in the US, which has opened in Manhattan, New York.
The two-storey Daily Paper store spans 1,140 square feet (106 square metres) and occupies a prominent corner building in Manhattan's Lower Eastside.
The Daily Paper store occupies a corner plot in Manhattan's Lower East Side
Up until now, the brand has exclusively been based out of Amsterdam, where its founders ? childhood friends Hussein Suleiman, Abderrahmane Trabsini, and Jefferson Osei ? grew up in the Oud-West neighbourhood.
All three founders are of African descent, with Suleiman's family hailing from Somalia, Trabsini's from Morocco and Osei's from Ghana.
Flattened drink cans decorate the outside of the building This has come to heavily inform the look of the store, where Heather Faulding of studio 4plus Design has subtly incorporated references to both Dutch and African culture.
The store building had been boarded up and was almost at a point beyond repair, but it has now been fully restored to feature a more ornately-shaped roof that emulates the form those seen on traditional Dutch townhouses.
A floor mosaic features on the store's ground level
Decorating the facade are thousands of recycled white, green and black drinks cans provided by Arizona Iced Tea, which appear to have been squashed.
"In order to create this effect, we estimate a total of between 13,500 and 14,000 recycled cans were used ? all ...