Tour: 650 Fifth Avenue - Nike Flagship Store
Nike’s new six-story flagship store, House of Innovation 000, has opened at the corner of 5th Avenue and East 52nd Street in Midtown. The façade is clad in slumped glass with a strong diagonal pattern that matches the angle of the brand’s famous swoosh logo. Retail concepts inside the flagship store include a Sneaker Bar, two maker’s studios, a Sneaker Lab, a Nike Expert Studio, and a Speed Shop at the below grade floor that will use local data to stock and restock shelves based on what is popular with buyers at this particular location.
Architects: Nike Global Retail Design and CallisonRTKL; Facade Consultant: Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers, Mode Lab; Client: Nike; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: 650 Fifth Avenue - Nike Flagship Store
Facade installation is wrapping up at the new Nike flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in Midtown.
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East facade.
Construction has finished at Aurora Capital Associates' 529 Broadway. Situated at the corner of Spring Street and Broadway in SoHo, the BKSK designed building rises six stories and contains 44,000 square-feet of commercial space. Nike has leased the entire building and earlier this month opened an expansive flagship store.
Looking up at the east facade.
The building replaces a recently demolished two-story warehouse structure from 1936. Landmarks approved the plans in September of 2013 with unusually positive remarks, due in part to the terracotta and glass façade design. Openings on the southern façade along Spring Street gradually increase in size from left to right, allowing for more glazing at the Broadway corner. Terracotta panels clad the vertical columns and the horizontal bands which transition from deep spandrels to thin blades at the Broadway corner.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the facade.
Looking up at the southeast corner of the facade.
Close-up of the south facade.
Frit pattern surrounding the glass panels.
Seating at the Nike store entrance.
Looking up at the central circulation spine of the store.
Frit pattern shadows at the south facade.
Architect: BKSK Architects; Developer: Aurora Capital Associates; Program: Commercial; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
