{"id":27731,"date":"2011-05-27T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=27731"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:06:25","slug":"best-peeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27731","title":{"rendered":"BEST Peeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BESTsac_01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;This approach is a way of asking questions and changing public response to the significance of commercial buildings in the suburban environment.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1970s, architectural firm SITE created some great facades for the BEST retail chain as part of what was titled <em>The Peeling Project.<\/em> Sacramento was home to the &#8216;earthquake&#8217; variant (pictured). The pushed out slab could be moved as necessary to reveal the front entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BESTsac_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BESTsac_03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The BEST chain is now gone &#8211; tho evolved into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\"target=\"_blank\">Best Buy,<\/a> which currently <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Best+Buy+Arden+Sacramento&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hl=en&#038;hq=Best+Buy+Arden&#038;hnear=Sacramento,+California&#038;ll=38.598627,-121.421242&#038;spn=0.002953,0.002478&#038;t=h&#038;z=19\"target=\"_blank\">occupies the same building,<\/a> but the cool entrance is long gone.<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlifson.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/all-will-crumble-all-will-tumble.html\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> SITE site <a href=\"http:\/\/siteenvirodesign.com\/projects\/best\/best06.htm\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BESTsac_04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BESTsac_05.jpg\"><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"BEST Peeling\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27731\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This approach is a way of asking questions and changing public response to the significance of commercial buildings in the suburban environment.&#8217; Back in the 1970s, architectural firm SITE created some great facades for the BEST retail chain as part of what was titled The Peeling Project. Sacramento was home to the &#8216;earthquake&#8217; variant (pictured). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54],"tags":[25,121],"class_list":["post-27731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","tag-avant-garde","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27736,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27731\/revisions\/27736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}