From Tom Spaulding's photostream:
A 1977 project in Sacramento, California, called the Notch showroom, continued SITE's use of fragmentation and subtraction.The 'Notch' showroom uses reductions as additions. In this case the building is penetrated by a 14' high raw-edged notch which serves as a main entrance. The 45-ton wedge extracted from this gap is mounted on a rail system incised into the paving and mechanized to move a distance of 40' to open and close the showroom. Understandably, crowds of spectators assemble to watch the morning opening and evening closing.
Here is a panoramic shot of the Indeterminate Facade Building, another famous Best Products building, which looks like it is falling into rubble, the same way it did when it first opened. The building was demolished in April of 2003.
You can learn more about other interesting Best Product buildings at SITE's website and here in an article from MetropolisMag.com.
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