In the early 1970s, Best Products founders Sydney and Frances Lewis contracted with Wines' firm Sculpture in the Environment (SITE) to design nine unique showrooms for the company.

[4] As with the eight other SITE-designed Best Products showrooms, the design was a standard big-box store with an unusual visual twist that literally deconstructed the architectural form.

Here, an ordinarily untamed element of nature transforms a banal architectural type through a tongue-in-cheek intervention, creating a new environment in the expanses of a suburban parking lot.

[3] The sensation is enhanced by the use of rounded gunite lining the inside of the gap, creating a contrast with the smooth brick exterior and amplifying the sense of what SITE described as "unbuilding," according to Architectural Record.

[2]However, Douglass-Jaimes noted that artists and art critics considered Wines' "exploration of decay, neglect, and artificiality [to] critique the throwaway nature of American consumer culture, the source of his clients’ business success.

Writer Margaret McCormack pointed out that Forest Building survived only by being transformed into a church, which she said affirms the ephemerality of big box architecture.

"[17] Although he admitted the possibility of good intentions on the part of the new owner, he said the building was "virtually destroyed" by "a local architect who surgically removed every element that looked suspiciously like art," he said.

[12] Wines also criticized the removal of certain trees and ground cover, the addition of concrete accessibility paths added to the forested area and the elimination of terrarium gardens in the façade.