About Slipcovertecture
This group is for sharing, appreciating, and bashing architectural slipcovers--thin, surface level covers that have been put over older buildings, with the intent of updating their appearance to something more contemporary without the expense of new construction.
Slipcovers have been used at different times and have been done in many different styles, but they were particularly popular during the 1950s-70s, when the places Americans lived and the way they shopped were both changing radically. Cities and towns were struggling to compete with new, suburban malls (strip and regular), and thus the slipcover was born.
The "classic" slipcover, in my opinion, is a big sheet of pastel-colored metal slapped across the front of a two-story storefront building, with the store's name in big, effusive script cascading across the sheet metal. But there are many variations on the slipcover. Please share the ones that you've spotted, and if you would, kindly tag your photos with "slipcovertecture." Thank you!
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Additional Information
 This is a public group.
- Accepted media types:
- Accepted content types:
- Photos / Videos
- Screenshots / Screencasts
- Illustration/Art / Animation/CGI
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