Visit from the Center for Architecture

On Wednesday August 16th, one of the Center for Architecture's Summer Programs (Pop Up Shop) came to take a look at some of our Pop Up spaces to learn about the process of creating unique experiences for brands. We showed them around The Arcade Japan Pop Up at 251 Elizabeth and gave them lots of inspiration by showing them pictures of some of previous Pop Up build-outs!

Q&A at 173 Elizabeth

The Result

As part of the program, the students designed and built models of their own Pop Up shops.

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