MetaFilter posts tagged with BigBox

big box mart walmart

thedailygrowl — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:20:48 -0800

Big Box Mart. More info on big boxes. Some rules for shopping in big boxes. A short history of America before the big boxes arrived.

Clean up on aisle 7

shoepal — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:41:08 -0800

Big Box Reuse: How Communities are Re-Using the Big Box. (via, via Planetizen)

The Best Big-Box Architecture

ukamikanasi — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:59:25 -0800

SITE Environmental Design did some pretty cool things for now-defunct big-box retailer Best back in the '70's and early '80's. Unfortunately, all but two of their Best stores have been razed or transformed into plain boxes; and one of those is under threat. They may not have been Chartres Cathedral, but they were certainly more interesting than the standard Wal-Mart or Best Buy architecture.