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Foster + Partners designs “porous” Apple store in Beijing

August 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Apple Sanlitun by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China

A large overhanging roof shelters the expansive glass walls that front the “open and inviting” Apple Sanlitun store by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China. Located in a large open square within Sanlitun, an area of the capital city’s Chaoyang District, the building replaces China’s first Apple Store built adjacent to the site in 2008.

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Burberry and Tencent collaborate on interactive WeChat shop in Shenzhen

August 2, 2020 India Block 0

Visitors to Shenzhen’s Burberry flagship store can use Tencent’s WeChat app to interact with the window display and play their own music in fitting rooms. The British fashion brand and China’s largest social media company collaborated to design a shop that suited Shenzhen’s growing reputation for technology. Shoppers use WeChat, a Chinese messaging and social

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Forte Forte fashion boutique in Madrid is filled with shapely details

July 17, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Forte Forte store in Madrid designed by Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana

A pale geometric relief wall offsets brass and green-marble decor details in this Madrid boutique designed by creative duo Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana. Madrid’s Forte Forte store occupies a corner plot in Salamanca – a glamorous district of the city known for its boulevards lined with luxury fashion boutiques and upscale restaurants. It was

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Gabriel Chipperfield gives London newsagents plush revamp

July 5, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Shreeji News by Gabriel Chipperfield

Gabriel Chipperfield has created an “Alice in Wonderland”-style warren of luxurious rooms behind Shreeji newsagents in central London. Shreeji newsagent and tobacconist is located on Chiltern Street in London’s affluent Marylebone neighbourhood, just a stone’s throw from the notable hotel Chiltern Firehouse. The shop was set up by Sandeep Garg in 1982, and has since

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Shanghai’s Canal St shop is styled like the New York subway

April 15, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Canal St store by Sò Studio

A subway car-style corridor, worn concrete walls and metal railings feature inside this Shanghai clothing shop, which Sò Studio has designed to emulate New York. Canal St offers a selection of high-end streetwear and was designed by locally-based Sò Studio to “bring the downtown New York lifestyle to Shanghai”. The studio believes the two major

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Francesc Rifé pairs raw concrete with pink fabric in ASH Mallorca shoe shop

April 14, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
ASH Mallorca shoe store by Francesc Rifé Studio

Spanish designer Francesc Rifé has created a distinctive interior for a shoe store in Mallorca, using shades of soft pink and pale grey. The ASH Mallorca store in Palma features curving concrete surfaces and suspended black shelves, set against a backdrop of soft pink curtains. There are few other elements in the 95-square-metre space, ensuring that

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Culdesac designs coherent interiors for Consum supermarket in Benicàssim

April 8, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Consum supermarket in Benicàssim by Culdesac

Creative consultancy Culdesac has designed a store for supermarket chain Consum in Benicàssim, Spain, with simple, stripped-back interiors to make the shop’s arrangement understandable. Valencia-based Culdesac designed the arrangement, signage and furniture of the store, which will serve as a model for Consum’s future shops, to be clearer and easier to understand than traditional supermarkets. “Stores should be designed

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Mintchi Croissant is a São Paulo bakery filled with pastry-inspired details

April 2, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Mintchi Croissant by Dezembro Arquitetos

The interior of this São Paulo patisserie is designed by Dezembro Arquitetos to answer the question, how does it feel to be inside a croissant? Dezembro Arquitetos, led by architects Marcos Bresser and Thiago Maurelio, designed a series of pastry-inspired details for Mintchi Croissant in Pinheiros. These include a lightweight cardboard ceiling and furniture elements created using

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UNStudio creates pixelated steel and glass brick facade for Louis Vuitton-store on PC Hooftstraat

April 1, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Louis Vuitton store on PC Hooftstraat called Brick Pixelation by UNStudio

Dutch architecture practice UNStudio has recreated a typical Dutch townhouse’s facade in bricks made from stainless steel and glass for Louis Vuitton’s store on Amsterdam shopping street PC Hooftstraat. Named The Brick Pixelation by UNStudio, the store for Louis Vuitton is on luxury shopping street PC Hooftstraat. The store at 140-142 is directly next door to The Looking Glass,

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Mesh and paper-pulp partitions feature inside Nanjing’s Shiwu store

March 31, 2020 Ali Morris 0
Shiwu store by CATS

Mesh panels dipped in paper pulp, polycarbonate and OSB timber merge to form the textured interior of this lifestyle store in Nanjing, China, designed by architecture studio CATS. Located along a narrow alleyway next to the city’s China Modern History Museum, the Shiwu store sells a selection of products handmade by Japanese craftsmen such as

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