The Prada Store on Prince Street and Broadway, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is a combination of an ultra-modern interior housed in a brooding late-Victorian exterior. We’ve bookmatched the steep in/out and up/down entrance. An extravagant $40 million was spent on a 23,000-square foot space in a building worth less than half of that. The two floors are connected with a half-pipe wooden curve made of exotic zebrawood.

Formerly a branch of the Guggenheim Museum, it is now a museum/gallery of exquisite products available to those who have the means to indulge…pairs of shoes on each stair step draw your attention and keep you moving on to the next. Many people pass through simply to experience the fabulousness inherent in just being there. In January, a terrible fire in the building wiped out the new collection, but they seem to have recuperated without pausing. See this link for an in depth article.