Designed in collaboration with architect Ole Sondresen, there were four stores across Brooklyn in Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Cobble Hill and Park Slope and one west coast flagship store in Los Angeles. For over twenty years, Bird championed the best emerging independent designers, and the stores were gathering places to celebrate style and design. Each store had its own personality in connection to its neighborhood and community, but the designs were similar in that they were all strongly grounded in natural materials, deeply influenced by the building practices of Scandinavia and Japan, with additional design influences ranging from Mexico to Marrakech. The award-winning stores were the physical manifestation of the Bird Brooklyn aesthetic, warm, colorful and deeply individualistic. We created spaces to be welcoming and accessible to all, while always striving to inspire and spark joy. Bird was also more than a place for commerce, the stores were built to be community hubs — continuously hosting donation drives, community events, book launches, designer discussions and art exhibitions. Bird actively promoted strong eco-conscious ideals through its community partnerships, design practices, local sourcing and charitable giving. Strict sustainability and green-building standards were maintained throughout the construction of the Williamsburg outpost, resulting in the coveted LEED-CI Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, the first retail establishment to receive this certification in New York.