Award of Merit, Small Project: Athletic Propulsion Labs

APL – Athletic Propulsion Labs

New York Metropolis

Award of Advantage

Submitted by: Schimenti Development Co.

Proprietor: APL

Lead Design: Al-Jawad Pike

Basic Contractor: Schimenti Development Co.

Structural Engineer: Eipel Engineering Group

MEP Engineer: Customized Designing & Engineering

Architect of Document: Tricarico Structure and Design PC

The efficiency footwear model’s flagship retailer in Manhattan is a 3,800-sq-ft amphitheater-shaped boutique in SoHo—a second location after its Los Angeles headquarters—that may be a testomony to meticulous craft and creation, in accordance with the mission staff.

Partitions are customized clay-based artisan plaster, whereas the flooring is travertine imported from Italy. Customized shows had been additionally imported from Italy, and becoming rooms, known as “vainness rooms,” characteristic uncommon pure onyx stones that embody a variety of colours. The rooms are designed to characterize every of New York Metropolis’s 5 boroughs, in accordance with the submission.

Photograph courtesy Schimenti Development Co.

Venture challenges included redesigning the ceiling help because of an present terra-cotta construction, which required extending the completion schedule. The showroom’s excessive curves and angles additionally required intricate design that features exact lighting set up underneath a stretch cloth overlaying. There additionally had been unexpected customs delays for essential millwork.

The seven-month mission was accomplished at finances and on schedule.