The Auction House, located in Port Richmond, is a 116,000 sf ft industrial warehouse that was originally built at the turn of the century as a knitting mill. The client approached ALMA to re-imagine the entrance, office, auction, garden center, and storage spaces.

 

The pre-construction entrance was essentially a loading dock without much fanfare. The challenge was to create an entrance that would be inviting to clients without compromising the necessary loading dock functions.

ALMA architecture designed a faceted skin to simultaneously define the entrance and create a visual barrier to the loading dock.