Not every architect would compete to renovate a department-store facade situated between a supermarket and an Applebee's on a sign-saturated, multilane highway 6,000 miles from home. But in 2008 when Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, principals of Brooklyn'based nArchitects, received an invitation from Lebanese high-fashion retailer ABC to submit a proposal to update the south, west, and north exposures of their,Dbayeh location six miles north of Beirut, they couldn't resist.
The existing blue-glass and yellow-aluminum-paneled building from the 1980s looked more like a corporate headquarters than a shopping destination. And it hadn’t kept pace with a 2005 redesign of the ABC brand that had rounded the corners of the well-known triangular logo and recast it in a sleek silvery monochrome.
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