Search Results for “site” – Page 2

Source: Site

Site most often refers to:

Archaeological site
Campsite, a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area
Construction site
Location, a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere
Website, a set of related web pages, typically with a common domain name
It may also refer to:

Site, a National Register of Historic Places property type
SITE (originally known as Sculpture in the Environment), an American architecture and design firm
Site (mathematics), a category C together with a Grothendieck topology on C
The Site, a 1990s TV series that aired on MSNBC
SITE Intelligence Group, a for-profit organization tracking jihadist and white supremacist organizations
SITE Institute, a terrorism-tracking organization, precursor to the SITE Intelligence Group
Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate, a company in Sindh, Pakistan
SITE Centers, American commercial real estate company
SITE Town, a densely populated town in Karachi, Pakistan
S.I.T.E Industrial Area, an area in Karachi, Pakistan
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975
Google Sites, web based website editor

SITE (originally also known as Sculpture in the Environment) is an architecture and environmental design firm founded in 1970 by James Wines.
Located in the Wall Street area of New York City, the firm aims to unite building design with visual art, landscape, and green technology.
In the 1970s, SITE became internationally known for a series of highly unorthodox retail facilities for Best Products. While keeping the basic shape of a simple brick box, SITE gave the exteriors of the buildings an ironic postmodern twist, often suggesting cracks in the brickwork or deforming walls.
The severely distressed crumbling walls of the Indeterminate facade near Houston, Texas purportedly “appeared in more books on 20th century architecture than photographs of any other modern structure.”

Despite possibly representing "the apex of American Postmodernism," all the BEST facades except for the Forest Building disappeared or are now unrecognisably transformed.