New or Completely Renovated Specialty Department Store
First Place
Tucci, Segrete + Rosen, New York
To affirm its commitment to downtown Manhattan, Bloomingdale’s selected the building formerly occupied by Canal Jeans as its satellite flagship in New York. The 90,000-square-foot mid-19th Century brick building on lower Broadway needed some work, but it had solid architectural bones that designers at the now-defunct Tucci, Segrete + Rosen used to full advantage when creating the space.
Building on the idea of a “visual storyline,” designers at Bloomingdale’s and TS+R blended exposed brick walls, oak flooring and tin ceilings with contemporary materials and functional displays to give the six-story space interest on every level. Designers maximized light by refurbishing existing skylights and light wells, uncovering previously concealed windows, installing a new double-wide entrance on Crosby Street and creating a three-story atrium at the Broadway entrance. Pink cosmetic bars and checkerboard flooring make an impression at the main-floor cosmetics area, while a pale blue palette and black and white photographs mark the third-floor contemporary collection. In the lower-level men’s department, graffiti-style hand-painted murals give the space a retro-80s feel.
Client: Bloomingdale’s/Federated Department Stores, Cincinnati
Jack Hruska, senior vp, store design and visual merchandising
Shan DiNapoli, vp, store planning and design
Diane Koester Sibert, project director
Rudy Javosky, senior vp, design and construction
Bernie Reiss, divisional vp, design and construction
Bob Kapellas, operating vp, construction
Bill Stidum, project manager
Mike Pardee, senior project manager
Glen Withrow, Lance Woodard and John Schlageter, construction managers
Jeff O’Hearn and Elizabeth Grossman, project coordinators, purchasing
Design and Architecture: Tucci, Segrete + Rosen, New York
Evangelo Dascal, president and project director
Edward Calabrese, executive vp, creative director
Lisa Contreras, senior vp, creative resources and development
Marco Oppici, senior project designer
Doug Griffin, project manager
General Contractor: SPACE — Federated Department Stores, Cincinnati
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Lighting: Horton Lee Brogden, New York
Architectural/Engineering: Highland Associates, New York
Audio/Visual: Crow’s Nest Entertainment, New York
Ceilings: US Gypsum, New York
Fixtures: Monarch Industries, Warren, R.I.
Suss Woodcraft, Montreal
Builders Furniture, Winnepeg, Man.
Flooring: Innovative Marble & Tile Inc., New York
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Dakota Jackson, New York
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Mannequins: Adel Rootstein USA Inc., New York
Patina-V, City of Industry, Calif.
Photography : , New York