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TOWSON, Md. — Sydney Lewis
limits he was gambling when he
bught the public would like a New
ork architect’s penchant for the ab-
urd.
Hie public did like it. As a result,
lenewTowson store of Best Prod-]
ct Inc., of which Lewis is board
rman, is a building people don’t
oon forget.
Site Inc., a New York-based ex-
erimental architecture and
nvironmental arts organization,
reposed tilting the brick front of
lestore at a 45-degree angle.
Lewis and his wife Frances, an
xecutive vice president of Best,
rugged and asked, “Why not?”
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the building from the base foun-
iy Gei» a (j on The result — a canopy effect
lat exposes smoked glass show-
)emocrfl l0m windows — so far has done an
■inning! rcellent job of luring puzzled and
irious shoppers inside.
Mrs. Lewis said facelifts at three
iher Best stores designed by Site
ave improved business tremen-
d to »f ously. She said the idea to have
rat W He’s 12 architects improve on the
Wesl^aditional four-sided box was a inat-
t of “Well, why not’?’’
ge BP| We wanted a building people
ternH 1 ould remember,” she said. “Most
i Roda iiildings are so boring. But you’ll
ever forget our stores. They’ve be-
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partners of Site, said the tilt design
for the Eudowood Plaza building in
Towson was an attempt to get away
from the boxy, warehouse-type
structure that dots most major
shopping centers throughout the
country.
“We re involved with public art,”
Sousa said. “It is the fusion of art
and architecture that concerns us.
We want people to stop counting
the cracks on the sidewalk and look
up."
Site’s three other Best stores are
scattered across the country, each
making its own statement on “the
fusion of art and architecture.”
They include a Richmond, Va.,
store that has a facade which looks
like the brick outer wall has peeled
away from a concrete backdrop; a
Sacramento, Calif., store that has a
corner piece pulled from its base;
and a Houston store that looks as
though the front wall is collapsing.
Another project designed by the
firm — a “ghost” parking lot in
Hamden, Conn. — spooked shop
pers as they gaped at the spooky
images of cars sprouting up from the
asphalt lot.
The designs have been called
“punk art,” but the architects pro
test that description, saying they
have created a new form of architec
tural expression.
Sousa admitted that the unique
storefronts, which cost 4 to 10 per
cent more than the traditional pro
totype, are “something that has to
grow on you.
He declined to comment on the
cost of the Best store in Towson.
Referring to the tilt building,
Sousa said, “We wanted to show
them the goodies inside and we did
that by taking the front corner of the
building and lifting it up to see
what’s inside. The effect is a
canopy.”
James Wines, project concept
coordinator, said Site’s architects
were “starving for eight years” be
fore their idea of “inversion sym
bolism” caught on.
He said the architects explore to
find ways to make buildings “not
what they seem.”
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ST.LOUIS — Faced with a court
order obtained by the Federal Avi
ation Administration, Herman
Bluestone says he won’t be flying his
balloons for a while.
Bluestone and his neighbors in
the Ramona Hills subdivision
planned to send aloft up to 15
weather balloons on 450-foot nylon
cables in protest against low-flying
airplanes at Lambert Field.
The subdivision is directly under
one of the airport’s flight paths, and
Bluestone said about 77 planes pass
200 feet overhead hourly, rattling
houses and making conversation
impossible.
“Some of my neighbors are losing
their hearing, others are highly ner
vous,” Bluestone said. “They’ve
reached a breaking point. I don’t
know what they’re liable to do.”
The FAA said the balloons could
cause a plane to crash, and the
agency received a temporary injunc
tion from a U.S. District Court
against the protest. Bluestone and
his neighbors were ordered to ap
pear in court Nov. 13.
Bluestone flew one of the
yellow-and-red balloons at a height
of about 50 feet Thursday, but
reeled it in when he learned of the
court order.
“It’s a standoff right now,” Blue-
stone said. “We re sitting back con
templating our next move. But we
don’t plan to fly the balloons. We’re
law-abiding citizens. ”
Bluestone said the airport should
change the flight patterns, or buy
the 100 or so homes in the subdivi
sion. He estimated that would cost
about $1.5 million.
“They’re talking about doubling
the traffic from 77 planes an hour to
120,” said Bluestone. “I would re
linquish my property to get some
place quieter.
“We can’t live under the threat of
such heavy traffic,” he said. “You
have a mechanical thing flying over
head, plus you have the human er
ror. You can’t guarantee those
things are going to stay up.”
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