Photos courtesy of archdaily, licensed under Creative Commons

Italian skate/snowboarding collective Comvert has just introduced a flagship store/office for its Bastard brand in Milan, and it’s set our beloved Internet on fire!  Kanye West and a host of others have already covered it, and why not?  It’s an irresistible blend of skateboarding, architecture and childish fantasy that exemplifies modern-day urban architecture and skating.

Comvert, who is also the Italian distributor for Electric Visual, and Italian architecture firm studiometrico took Supreme’s indoor, elevated-skate-bowl concept and supersized it inside a 1940’s theater.  This large space also allowed them plenty of room to create a respectable-sized bowl with a nice little vert section and still have plenty of room for a store and a smattering of offices.  The resulting space, as you will see from the images, is nothing short of amazin’.

Supreme Store Bowl in Los Angeles

Attached are a few of the pictures from the post on archdaily, but I encourage you to head over there for the full rundown and gallery.

Also, see the indoor ramp house in Athens, Greece.

via David Mongan, 13 May 2009 12:43pm | |