Whole Foods Market

Client:
Bellevue Ventures, LLC

Concept Design Architect:
MCG Architecture

Location:
Pasadena, CA

Use:
Retail/Whole Foods Market

Facts:
• Building – 90,000 SF
• Land – 1.2 AC

Awards:
2008 Gold Nugget Awards
• Best Adaptive Re-Use Project (Grand Award)

Description:
Whole Foods Market presents a unique contemporary design which integrates an existing historical structure (circa 1920) to offer an organic foods market and flagship westcoast store containing 90,000 SF on two levels with 3 levels of subterranean parking.

Once a repair depot for city buses, this structure adapts to its new role for store checkout. It received an exact replica of its old shed roof, structural wall bracing and extensive cosmetic restoration.

Expressing the successful resolution of all constraints, the architecture unifies new and historic components; provides targeted capacities and functions; and makes a significant aesthetic contribution to its heritage, mixed-use neighborhood.

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