PUMA City, Shipping Container Store / LOT-EK
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Dec 2008
Our green friends over Inhabitat just tipped us on a new project by NYC/Napoli based office LOT-EK, a practice that has been doing an interesting job by reusing containers.
24 containers are put together to create a 3 storey store with over 11,000 sqf, including a bar/lounge area and 2 decks.
The store is currently at the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009, and it´s transported to each location (Alicante, Boston, Stockholm) and assembled quickly.
More pictures details after the jump.
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Out of all the containertecture examples I have seen, this one tops the cake. Very appropriate idea for the merchandise, as well as an exellent marketing strategy in terms of mobility.
I agree! This looks really great. The windows and patio really take this out of the world of standard shipping container architecture. Awesome.
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I put this building up on my blog yesterday. It’s a beautiful structure. I cannot get enough of that cantilever!
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Done amazingly well – I’ve seen some great shipping container conversions but this definitely sets the standard The cantilever is unreal –
But also like the staggered look of the logo – like the container really has been ripped apart and simply placed back together.
The industrial raw feel is great! (and nice find archdaily!)
thanx for the conteporary site ;) and about the structure here .. ive seen other exaples of buildings made by containers but all of all this one acctually fits in the site (based on the pics here) 10/10
Do you have some plans !?
i have to say also, that this is actually a pretty nice project.
^^ There is a plan here: http://tinyurl.com/89h8j3
THANKS !
I love this project…but then again, I am bias because I have a huge love for Puma shoes and already own too many pairs and still eying more.
But with that put aside, I have to say I am really impressed with the use of shipping containers, this project and the Freitag building really push the bar (which you really should post that shipping container building…plus I really want to see the plans on that one…and this one.)
Anyway, thank you for keeping this site on its toes and posting so much architecture we would probably miss in the flood of information online.
Nice design very unique and resourceful I was actually planning to do the same thing with my new offices, I’m planning to use containers well this is a nice screen shot of my future offices thanks for the post.
hi
the two project ”Lowtech” and ”r&sie” seems very opposite.
In appearence, for the both, just Stacking of elements, but ……the first is post-industrial and the other seems post-human, the first is using components in their integrity with a kind of modernism religiosity (with a perfection of know how) but with a kind of conventionnal articulation, the second hide the components through a body without organs, without structuralism dependencies, producing confusion between parts and the whole entity.
The first is brandy, minimal and easy readable, consummable for mister NIKE-Prada as ”the easy listening”, the second is repuslsive, vomitable agressive, spiky and vaginal.
One is unfolding intelligence as a spectacle, the other is an anomaly, a toxic dynausaure, as a fragment of the unknow …
But the main question is which one is the ”mas macho” one Laurie Anderson) ? and Where is the wrong darwinism branchees, the bad mutant or the ideal elegancy.
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good lego work
Gran solucion, con elementos reciclados dando una imagen de vanguardia aplicando toques de Arquitectura moderna. Good work!!!!
I love this like I love lego.
interesting idea! :)
I think this a awesome idea, rock on Puma.
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check this out…
container-tower by freitag-bags a couple of years earlier.
http://www.freitag.ch/medias/sys_master/8450667512892128.mov
che sthhhorie !!!
It is an interesting idea to recycle but it feels 2 dimensional perhaps it should not have been painted over leaving only “Puma” written on it.
Holy Crap! A Lot-Ek Project that actually got built! Usually they just pretend to be an architectural firm. Lot-Ek likes to promote shipping container projects as inexpensive and ecological, but in order to actually get it built, they needed the warbucks of an international garment company. And in order to make it interesting and cool enough for their own egos, they had to waste the structural power of containers on a design that needed great piles of re-enforcement on that cantilever. Oh, and no insulation? I wonder how much the air-conditioning bill is.
Lot-Ek and Puma are a perfect match actually, because Lot-Ek doesn’t do architecture. They do fashion, just like puma.
absolutely fantastic design…
I came to this site and found this article and decided to use it for an assignment in my Visual & Create Art Program. One of the things I am supposed to include is an idea of the cost. How can I find out more about that detail in a timely fashion?
This course is my introduction to the study of art/design of any type; and I am starting rather late in life as a form of distraction for grief.
I really appreciate being able to read these comments.
Wonderful….That’s very nice design ,I like it!!!!
I saw this on your site when it was posted, and while driving around south Boston yesterday, I came across the shipping containers of the puma store all disassembled and ready to be built.
Took some photos and added them to my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stottyboombotty/3414797958/in/set-72157616292091231/
I can’t wait!
cool project. out in LA there is a design firm going absolutely crazy with this container idea. for those who are interested here is the link: http://www.demariadesign.com
I’m a fan of their work and Lotek’s as well.
you want cantilevers, go to
http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/projects/015_wozoco/index.html
but don’t be fooled thinking re-purposing containers is somehow green. overall carbon footprint of building and hauling these things around must really swamp conventional construction of shoe stores that stay put.
awesome
چه خوبه!:)
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