Bike shop

As is the way of retail, Rapha Cycling Club goes beyond the storefront to create a lifestyle center for its customers. Their clubhouses function as inspiring meeting places for road riders around the world. But each clubhouse is also unique and strives to represent the local community just as well as the global community. Cushing Terrell worked with Rapha to complete tenant improvement work on both their Seattle, WA and Boulder, CO locations, taking brand design xdocumentation and translating it into buildable construction drawings. More

Adjacent to Cabot Circus and Quakers Friars, the new shopping district in the centre of Bristol, Castle Park has stood unchanged since the 1950s as a large urban green space in the heart of the city. The trees and vegetation planted in the 1950s and 60s have matured well and Castle Park is now enclosed by a dense wall of greenery which shields it from the city. The redesign of Castle Park corner, currently occupied by hard paving, car parking spaces and imposing steps at the foot of the park will permit the extension of the park and allow it to reconnect with the new retail quarter.   Rather than occupying the site with a standalone building, the project will extend the park via a series of sloping green roofs and ramps to create new... More

The project we are presenting, is in partnership with TATU another NGO working in Msitu Wa Tembo, and Global bike. The building is located in Msitu Wa Tembo, a small and rural village in the Manyara region, about 40 km from Moshi. The site is about 1km from Msitu Wa Tembo bus station, easily accessible from the main road and close to a mosque, a church, a Massai market and one of our GroundWork project, a wholesale shop Kazi Na Sala.The aim of this project, is to make a social impact and to improve the life of the community, especially of the women. In fact, in this village, women are used to walk more than two hours every day to get drinking water. Therefore, a bike shop would give them access to bikes, which would help them to save time f... More

C-re-aid’s second Bike Shop building, sponsored by the Canadian organisation Global Bike, provides a place for the women of the village of Mikocheni to work on and store bikes. A big shaded workspace is combined with a secure indoor space where bikes and spare parts can be stored, yet are easily accessible when needed.The building is located in a remote Massai village with nor electricity nor streaming water. Here, the women often have to overcome big distances to have access to food or basic supplies. Global Bike therefore provides the women with bikes to make these daily tasks easier. However, bikes are easily damages on the bad roads in the village. That is why Global Bike also invests in bike shops, places where they teach the women how... More

VÈLO7 is a group of bicycle enthusiasts who want to share their passion with others. Interested in offering best quality bicycles to their customers, they have decided to create a unique place that would reflect their common fascination. This job was entrusted to a befriended studio – mode:lina™. „We are crazy about bicycles. We can race, ride and ramble on about them all the time. Bicycles definitely get us going.” – VÈLO7 The cyclists needed a multifunctional space which could easily accommodate the functions of a bike shop, service and repair and a place for bike testing. Knowing that in VÈLO7 it is all about two-wheelers, our designers tapped into bicycle inspirations. The triangular forms and slant surfaces used throughout th... More

24-July-2017 Housing Corporation VANKE has asked us to make a proposal for a Bike Club as part of a big resort in Sanya that we are currently involved in. Sanya is the southernmost city in China. It is located in Hainan Province. The city is renowned for its tropical climate and is a popular tourist destination. Daily mean = 25˚ C! The resort will consist of three clusters of large, bend slabs of 21 stories high placed around lake size swimming pools. One of these clusters will be designed by NL Architects. It will contain approximately 1300 holiday apartments. In addition to this configuration NL Architects will develop another typology, slightly lower, only 7 stories high in a high market segment. The public space plays a cru... More

Fletcher Priest’s 240,000 sq ft #6 First St. is a new type of workplace in the heart of Manchester. It is the first phase of Patrizia’s 1 million sq ft development, where Ask are the development managers, which will create a new piece of city between the Creative Hub and the University. It will support 21st century ways of working and living in the city, and is already attracting global occupiers. The new building will complete the lively new civic square that celebrates Tony Wilson, which it also shares with Mecanoo’s new HOME arts building and Ian Simpson’s Innside Hotel. Pedestrian streets to the east and south extend the city grid and connect to Oxford Rd Station and the University. It will be a tram ride to the airport. #6 is... More

Petzl America recently completed their new North American Headquarters in Utah, which is on track for LEED platinum certification. Petzl's business is based on verticality and light, and the building is a metaphor for these concepts. The overall design incorporates a long list of sustainable features including a roof mounted photo voltaic array, natural daylight throughout all areas of the building including the distribution warehouse, bioswales on site to capture the rain water from the roof and re-charge the ground water, a plug-in for electric cars, recycled materials and products purchased within a 500 mile radius of the building's geographical location. The company has a dog-friendly policy that allows employees to bring their dog... More