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One kit of parts, three cities, one summer

Client: Home Depot, produced with AKJohnston Group and Emily Nicole Crawford LLC
Locations: Atlanta, Boston, New York
Run: Summer 2026

Build one great environment and you've done a project. Build three across three cities in the same season and you've done logistics. For Home Depot's World Cup fan activations we fabricated modular retail-garden environments in Boston, New York, and Atlanta, with the New York and Atlanta sets built as identical twins: ten-foot wall modules, fifteen-foot center columns, modular planter systems on a nearly 21-foot-square footprint, doors, floors, slat walls, tile elements, and gooseneck lighting, all in Home Depot orange.

Everything was engineered as a kit: birch ply and painted MDO skins, sandbag ballast per engineering wet stamps, and module sizes chosen so crews could install each set in days. Boston went up with a crew of six in two and a half days; New York installed the same week.

Three builds, three cities, one summer.

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Rec Department. Experiential design and fabrication, Atlanta. recdept.com