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Brooklyn-based Almost Studio provides a new interpretation of mobility with their winning competition proposal That s a Wrap
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Gallery of Sandy Liang Store / Almost Studio
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Text description provided by the architects. Brooklyn-based architectural firm Almost Studio has designed the 1,500-square-foot flagship boutique for the popular emerging fashion designer Sandy Liang. The design draws loosely from the playful, process-based aesthetic of Liang’s eponymous line, as well as from the industrial interiors of the surrounding Chinatown/Lower East Side neighborhood, where Liang grew up and her family has worked since the 1970s. Previously, space was occupied by a laundromat.
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The project is a story of firsts for both the architects and the client it is Almost Studio’s inaugural retail store design and Sandy Liang’s first physical boutique. The project is also driven by deep personal ties between collaborators. Almost Studio’s co-founder Dorian Booth and Liang are a couple, and Liang’s father’s company, Sun Sun Contracting Inc., served as the general contractor. Liang’s family is also deeply co