Shop Facade in London
- Sabine Drey
With the facade design for the Paul Smith Store on Albemarle Street in London, 6a Architects has set up a relationship between the fabric used in the designer’s offbeat items of clothing and London’s industrial past. The cast iron skin harks back to the eighteenth century, the period in which the building was erected; the material led to new branches of industry in the Great Britain of the day and has remained ubiquitous on the streets until the present day in the form of bridges, lanterns and balcony grilles.
