PSFK visited the innovative Puma City mobile multi-function space at Boston’s Fan Pier this past Monday. We first wrote about Puma City in December, and the winner of the 2009 Travel + Leisure Design Award for Best Retail space lived up to our expectations. To recap – Puma City is a three level indoor-outdoor structure, constructed out of 24 steel shipping containers. Designed by architectural group LOT-EK, the building acts as a store, lounge and mobile home base at different ports around the world for the Puma Volvo Ocean Race sailing team. The structure is designed to be easily taken apart, shipped and reassembled anywhere in the world.
For being such a functional piece of mobile architecture, Puma City did not feel overly industrial. The layering and spacing of the shipping containers created breezy open areas, and allowed in ample light. (It would make an excellent beach house.) The clever design, and overall sense of space showed off the practical potential of shipping container structures. Puma City will be open till May 16th., and you can follow the incredible exploits of Puma’s crew, and their boat, the il monstro (which heads back out to sea soon) at Ripe TV.
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Congratulations LOT-EK! Job well done, you’ve done this in an excellent way.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:26 am
I’ve only seen the store but I must say that shit is sick…………………………………. I plan on stopping by very soon :0P
May 10th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I visited the store for the Volvo Race and marveled at the ingenuity used to build such an attractive and useful space.
May 12th, 2009 at 3:42 pm