James Wines is an architect and the founder of SITE, the environmental arts studio behind Willi Smith’s showrooms, Shake Shack’s Madison Square Park location, BEST department stores, and Off ...

“The initial idea was to put sculpture in the buildings,” Wines says, “but I thought ‘why can’t the sculpture be the architecture?’ So we started making fun of these boring, banal ...

James Wines, founder and president of the New York studio SITE, has long blurred the lines between environmental art and architecture. Several of his 1970s-era stores for the now-defunct Best Products ...

As the founder of SITE, an architecture firm most widely-known for their seminal series of stores for BEST in the 1970s, James Wines has become ...

James Wines, founder of the architecture and environmental design studio SITE, has spent much of his career challenging the notion that architecture is an act of formal invention. His lecture ...

Wines was inspired by Off-White’s name to create the light, monochrome interior. (Courtesy OFF-WHITE) In collaboration with Suzan Wines, the cofounder of the New York-based architecture firm I ...

A career-spanning show of drawings by James Wines demonstrates his commitment to melding built and natural worlds By Anjulie Rao • February 8, 2023 • Architecture, Environment, Midwest, On View ...

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How Cooper Hewitt Revived Willi Smith’s Radical ShowroomsIn the ’80s, the architect James Wines tore off building façades to find materials. This time, he went through more official channels ...

A Constructivist-influenced abstract sculptor. That’s how James Wines described himself before leaping over the bounds of art studios and galleries, and down from their pedestals, before exiting in ...

In a light-hearted way James Wines portrayed by Gianluca Vassallo in his New York home. Born in 1932, he graduated in sculpture and art history from Syracuse University in 1957. The same year he ...