IRVINE SPECTRUM CENTER
BAR Architects
This highly-successful shopping/entertainment center in Southern California offers an exciting mix of movie, retail, restaurant, and live entertainment venues. BAR Architects designed the second half of the development, and I managed several projects within that scope.
BAR Architects
This highly-successful shopping/entertainment center in Southern California offers an exciting mix of movie, retail, restaurant, and live entertainment venues. BAR Architects designed the second half of the development, and I managed several projects within that scope.
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The theme for the project is an Andalusian village with a town center, pedestrian streets and squares, and a gracious architectural vocabulary. | |
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The phased development was based on a "kit of parts" system that combined lighting, graphics, architectural colors and details, and landscaping to create a rich, enjoyable environment. | |
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Like a village, the center is comprised of multiple buildings of varying sizes, shapes, and complementary details. | |
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The center's extensive exterior spaces are modulated by lighting, shade, and water features to create an inviting environment both day and night. | |
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Three garages serve the complex. | |
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Pedestrian entry to the garages maintains the architectural and landscape vocabulary. | |
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BAR Architects developed design guidelines for tenants and coordinated with architects for anchor stores. | |
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We designed a pedestrian bridge from a parking garage to Nordstrom. | |
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Target was another anchor tenant for whom we established design guidelines. | |
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The design guidelines had to mesh the architectural vocabulary of the center with the branding identity of Target. | |
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The center is located in Irvine, California, at the intersection of the 5 and the 405 freeways. |