Nike NYC Flagship Store

 store / shop, Modern (architecture)

6-story, 68,000-square-foot modernist flagship store for the Nike brand, attached to 650 Fifth Avenue next door which was completed in 1979. It was re-designed in 2019 into a stand-alone commercial structure by their in-house team and CallisonRTKL in collaboration with Rockwell Group and Mode Lab. The custom slumped glass facade by Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers was created in Barcelona, Spain and was then shipped to Germany for assembly. The floors are made from a terrazzo-based surfacing product with Nike Grind, made from recycled Nike shoes. Each of the floors has glass cladding in diagonal bands of extruded glass, organized into panels by black steel framing. The top floor is clad in traditional plate-glass, and the ground floor on the north facade (as well as a small section at the north end of the east facade, slanting down to the sidewalk) is plate-glass with a grid of small squares circumscribing white dots. The main entrance is in this short ground-floor section at the north end of the east facade, and the south end of the building has a bay of grey cast-stone with rounded corners, extending to the roof line, with metal service doors at the ground floor.

www.nike.com/us/en_us/e/cities/nyc/nikenyc_hoi_000