2004 Retail Design
Award Winners Hardline
Specialty Store 3,000-25,000 Sq. Ft.
GRAND PRIZE
Automatrix
Louisville, Ky. DesignWinntech,
Kansas City, Mo. FixturesWinntech,
Kansas City, Mo. Photgraphy Winntech, Kansas City,
Mo. Retailer Automatrix, Louisville,
Ky.
This 6,394-sq.-ft. prototype store
links the area’s largest automobile sales
company with an auto aftermarket firm in a destination
site featuring auto accessories, car audio/video/security
products, wheels/tires, a body shop, and used-car
lot. A unified brand strategy is reflected in the
showroom design, displays, signage, environmental
graphics, and interactive kiosks. The design is
kept simple and clean with contemporary fixturing.
The open ceiling reflects an industrial feel in
keeping with the product line.
OUTSTANDING MERIT
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Gallerie
Legacy Village, Lyndhurst, Ohio Architecture
Herschman Architects, Cleveland Fixtures Lloyds Cabinets, Harbor
City, Calif. General Contracting Capitol Construction,
Palatine, Ill. Photgraphy Mort Tucker Photgraphy,
Cleveland
This loft-style home furnishings
store with its high, exposed-structure ceiling,
rough wood floor, and exposed brick wall is departmentalized
by a dropped checkout-area ceiling and by the products
themselves. Furnishings such as screens and armoires
divide space. Inspired by the products, the cashwrap
makes one wonder where the merchandise ends and
the fixturing begins, providing a seamless visual
look. The gallery of wall art is confined to one
side, set off by partial walls with large archway
openings.
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Kansas City, Mo. 
