My Last Barnes & Noble - 3DAllusions

TheAllusionist · #1 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 05:07 AM

Almost all done with my final Barnes & Noble, from design phase to Construction Administration and actual construction completion. Did the construction acceptance punch list last Thursday and am doing final dealings with the City of Seattle's DPD in order to get final signoff/inspections so that we can opbtain the 'Certificate of Occupancy'. Can't tell you how glad I am to finally be done with them.

Some stats on the project, 36,000 sq.ft. two stories above ground and partial basement type II-B construction with a 2HR back/east wall in order to appease the city in some negotiated construction variances. Located at the Northgate Mall in Seattle Washington.

TheAllusionist · #2 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 07:19 AM

This is what it was suppose to look like before the executives in New York gave their design input and then there was the Value Engineering, the enemy of any design

neil · #3 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 12:25 PM

Hey Russell, Really nice architecture. I like the concept. Nice clean and simple kind of interior with beautiful mood. The exterior also looks very attractive.

BrianMyers · #4 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 01:42 PM

Barnes and Noble... I always feel like I walked into a place I can call home when I walk into those (I love bookstores). I like it!

ME · #5 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 01:48 PM

Wow interiors image look great!
Nice work Russell

d.sign · #6 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 02:58 PM

Looking good... interiors are really nice. Love the bookstores also, unfortunatelly have not got a chance to enter Barnes and Noble...
I like how the finished building turned out, no need to be dissatisfied with the design changes... somehow the finished building looks higher than in rendering phase...

neha · #7 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 03:01 PM

Looks great Russell! I LOVE reading & bookstores, this definately looks like a space where I would love to sit & read

Jake · #8 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 03:06 PM

Nice. The wooden structure reminds me of the REI store which was also very cool. Value engineering does it everytime.

Director Bob · #9 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 12:19 AM

Good job Russell. Now I know what the inside of a Barnes & Noble looks like

Thanks for say you did the Punch list.

TheAllusionist · #10 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by d.sign

Looking good... interiors are really nice. Love the bookstores also, unfortunatelly have not got a chance to enter Barnes and Noble...
I like how the finished building turned out, no need to be dissatisfied with the design changes... somehow the finished building looks higher than in rendering phase...

The final building is taller and certain column layouts narrower. The reason, actual Mechanical requirements required more space between suspeneded ceiling and structure and portion of building basement that was existing structuraly required certain column requirements.

So yes proportions of final structure different than initial design. In fact I actaully worked on this stores design at another firm back in 1998 and the original designs looked like the attachment rendering, modeled and HLR rendered in DataCad.

That is how projects go with corporate America, designs get watered down and made generic to match more of the generic cooky cutter designs of many roll out type projects. We atleast got to keep some of our design into the project.

Jake mentioned REI, the attached image would have been a lot more similar, and the store is right along I-5 like REI, but on the east side and much further north.

Thanks for the comments everyone, I just like to toss actual construction into the mix. DB, I didn't quite understand your comment on Punch List, but basically for this store it was a 56 page list of items the Contractor needed to take care of prior to the Owner accepting.