Costco AU

Who would have thought that a Costco could look like this?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Th5c_UPlEqRyJLsJIEZjcDeLECeoWjl76yewcYUW_pBmPYrTCqILfvvoRpOpcMB0xsjCpx3jWr528GUC4XZNPlWxLiyEX_fdIZEPc_LGOqlcEpp819Lz9TeJMiVFwllSccTmJ2SWWimd/s1600/Costco_Photo_05_PH.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Th5c_UPlEqRyJLsJIEZjcDeLECeoWjl76yewcYUW_pBmPYrTCqILfvvoRpOpcMB0xsjCpx3jWr528GUC4XZNPlWxLiyEX_fdIZEPc_LGOqlcEpp819Lz9TeJMiVFwllSccTmJ2SWWimd/s640/Costco_Photo_05_PH.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Photo by Peter Hyatt | via <a href="http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=2466">World Buildings Directory</a>]<br /><br />It's the Costco at Waterfront City in Melbourne's Docklands, designed by <a href="http://www.nharchitecture.net/">NHArchitecture</a> and completed in 2009. The architects describe it as such:<br /><blockquote><i>[It] demonstrates how large format retailing need not conform to the traditional stereotype of a big pitched-roof shed. The project challenges this precept by combining Costco’s globally successful retail strategy with VicUrban’s design agenda promoting quality contemporary architecture and public space.<br /><br />Big box retailing does not have a good track record for promoting leading architecture and urban design. Traditionally banished to the industrial edges of the city and symbolised by a massive shed in a sea of asphalt, the reputation is often well deserved. Melbourne’s new headquarters for Costco overcomes this conventional attitude.</i></blockquote>Of course, inside it looks exactly like every other Costco: <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbJhsVv9vua2x8eMW1Nyl_i71rFEzHK_Tz4vbGP883NcObF8duHCAaKqr6XhOM37uevuQDdDd_8YjN4HxwrOuPa6s8tZFKEh-1XB2yEISYEPtZzM7uKp0ymxsVg8d8IyYq-YUYOw7AhJ9H/s1600/Costco_Photo_11_TM.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbJhsVv9vua2x8eMW1Nyl_i71rFEzHK_Tz4vbGP883NcObF8duHCAaKqr6XhOM37uevuQDdDd_8YjN4HxwrOuPa6s8tZFKEh-1XB2yEISYEPtZzM7uKp0ymxsVg8d8IyYq-YUYOw7AhJ9H/s640/Costco_Photo_11_TM.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Photo by Trevor Mein | via <a href="http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=2466">World Buildings Directory</a>]

Costco AU

Who would have thought that a Costco could look like this? [Photo by Peter Hyatt | via World Buildings Directory ] It's the Costco at Wa...

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