Retail

Neri&Hu animates Little B store in Shanghai with white-glazed tiles and neon lights

August 18, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has paired curved white-glazed tiles with stainless steel at this high-end convenience store in Shanghai, designed for lifestyle brand The Beast. The Little B retail store sits amongst the narrow alleys that make up Shanghai’s central Xintiandi district, which is made up of reconstructed mid-19th-century Shikumen – or “stone gate” – houses.

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Batek Architekten create gallery-like backdrop for Zalando beauty store in Berlin

August 17, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

German practice Batek Architekten combined pale surfaces with concrete and steel accents to draw customer’s attention to the products on offer in this beauty store in central Berlin. The shop is located close to the city’s busy Hackescher Markt square and is Zalando’s first bricks-and-mortar store – the brand previously sold high-street fashion, shoes and

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Bright partitions and chunks of marble define Loreak fashion store in San Sebastián

August 15, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Pensando en Blanco has dotted blue glass partitions and jagged offcuts of grey marble throughout this otherwise colourless clothing store in northern Spain. Established in 1995, Loreak already have a host of stores across Spain in locations such as Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. For the interiors of its two-storey San Sebastian branch, the fashion label

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Huge obelisk marks entrance to Torino Outlet Fashion Village by Claudio Silvestrin Architects

August 6, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Claudio Silvestrin Architects has completed a shopping outlet in Turin, Italy, that features a 111-metre-high “modern medieval spire”. Built alongside a major road on the outskirts of the city, the Torino Outlet Fashion Village contains 81 shops arranged around two open-air streets. Claudio Silvestrin Architects marked the location of the 32,000-metre-square shopping centre with a

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Zooco Estudio create cave-like wine shop in Spain

August 4, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Architectural elements based on wine bottles and barrels create a contemporary vaulted ceiling in this wine shop in Valladolid, northwest Spain by Zooco Estudio. Called Vinas & Viandas, the cave-like wine shop occupies a 35-square-metre space with a shopfront that opens onto a paved street in the city centre. Inside, wine racks line either side

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“Retail is not dead, but boring retail is dead” according to Nike

August 3, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Nike is testing a host of tech-driven shopping features at a new store in Los Angeles, as part of the sports brand’s major plans to “disrupt” retail. The stock at the pop-up-style Nike Live Melrose shop – and its location – were chosen using data sourced from local customers’ online shopping habits, and those using

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Wutopia Lab lays out Shanghai Sanctum bookstore to be map of the human psyche

August 1, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. The studio designed the bookstore, named Sinan Books: Shanghai Sanctum, for the Shanghai Century Publishing Group and Yongye Group to be a space for learning and thinking. “Sinan Books is

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Valerio Olgiati uses sky blue marble for interiors of Céline store in Miami

July 31, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Blue-tinged marble and pyramidal forms appear throughout luxury fashion label Céline’s flagship store in Miami, which has been designed by Swiss practice Valerio Olgiati. The two-storey shop is located in the city’s design district, joining a roster of high-end fashion brands including Gucci, Tom Ford, and Louis Vuitton. Céline already has branches in New York and

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Fountains jet water over entrance to Foster + Partners’ sunken Apple store in Milan

July 26, 2018 India Block 0

In Milan the latest Foster + Partners-designed Apple Store features a dramatic water feature in an update on the traditional Italian piazza. Sunk into the square, the steps down to the store form an amphitheatre with the curtain of water providing a backdrop. The eight-metre high glass walls contain a water feature that was, according

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COS looks to Mies and Mondrian for first Chicago store

July 25, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

The works of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and artist Piet Mondrian influenced the geometric and pared-back design of this shop for fashion brand COS. The first COS store in Chicago occupies a new four-storey building on East Oak Street, designed by the company’s in-house team of architects. Sandwiched between two existing structures, the

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