Retail spaces, shop interiors, showrooms and shopping environments.
COS architectural creative lead Marcus Cole explains how more sustainable design principles were used in its recently opened concept stores, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for the brand. The brand recently opened two stores, located in Stockholm and Mexico City, which according to COS exemplify its commitment to sustainable building and circular design. Cole
Wroclaw-based architecture firm Znamy się designed a cobalt bar and orange circular element to create a club-like atmosphere and sunset…
Completed Tiffany & Co’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York,OMA’s New York office, led by OMA partner Shohei…
Slight variations in tone and texture differentiate surfaces inside the PJ Lobster glasses store in Barcelona, which Spanish interiors studio El Departamento has finished entirely in green. The shop in the El Born district features walls, floors and stuccoed ceilings all covered in soft, tranquil tones of seafoam green, creating an immersive experience designed to challenge
Blancostudio encased a pottery shop with walls of terracotta to represent handcrafted ceramic tableware within a simple building.The 35 square…
Klein Dytham Architecture has aimed to counter rock music snobbery with its design for guitar brand Fender’s Tokyo flagship store, which is meant to feel welcoming to people who might feel judged in other guitar stores. The Fender store sits across the bottom four floors of the glass-walled Ice Cubes building, a 12,000-square-metre space in
From Snøhetta to Han Chong, Andreas Kostopoulos, Nagami, JamesPlumb, Nina+Co, MRDK, FADAA – today designers and brands are taking steps towards sustainable retail design by seamlessly using a natural material palette.Effortlessly bridging the gap and pushing the boundaries of material use and circularity, every choice is aimed at minimizing waste or reviving waste products.For instance
Fashion brand Loewe has opened a store in Osaka that, for the first time, is specifically dedicated to the repair and preservation of its leather goods. The opening of Loewe ReCraft continues the “obsessive focus” that the brand has had on leather since 1846, when it initially launched as a leather-making collective. The store is set
London-based studio EBBA Architects has channelled the environmental ethos of fashion rental platform Rotaro for its pop-up boutique at department store Liberty. The project aimed to show that beautiful and interesting spaces can be created for temporary use, while still considering the environmental impacts of materials and construction. “We are very aware of our environmental
With Apple opening its latest Foster + Partners-designed store in the newly renovated Battersea Power Station, our latest roundup spotlights 10 Apple Stores designed by the British architecture studio. Apple has been working with Foster + Partners to create stores since 2014, when the technology company and architecture studio worked together to complete a retail location
Hong Kong-based architect and interior designer André Fu has completed the first global flagship store for electronic accessory brand Casetify in Osaka, combining traditional Japanese shoji paper lanterns with bright colours. The store, which marks the first retail project by Fu in Japan, was informed by the urban landscape of the Shinsaibashi neighbourhood in Osaka
Technology company Apple has unveiled its latest Foster + Partners-designed store in the recently revamped Battersea Power Station in London, which features updated fixtures and furniture. Set to open later today, Apple Battersea is the brand’s 40th UK store and represents an evolution in its retail design thinking with more of an emphasis placed on
Local architect Rafael de Cárdenas referenced lost landmarks of New York for the interiors of this streetwear store in the city’s Lower East Side. De Cárdenas worked with Angelo Baque, the former brand director of streetwear brand Supreme, on the design of a retail location for Awake NY, which Baque founded in 2012. Large sculptures
Residential design focuses on residents’ needs, while retail design addresses a wider audience and the display of products.On the other…
Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio designed a store for kitchenware brand Our Place that features colourful tile displays and expressive drapery that hangs from the ceiling. The Our Place Melrose store is the brand’s second location in Los Angeles, following the inaugural shop in Venice, and is situated in West Hollywood’s busy shopping district. The Our Place
Harnessing soft colours and gentle curves, interior design studio Vives St-Laurent has completed the Billie Le Kid children’s shop in Mont-Tremblant – a Canadian ski resort known for its colourful architecture. Following on from Billie Le Kid’s first store in Montreal, the brand brought in Vives St-Laurent to create a new outpost that captured the
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The SillThe Sill, which began as an online provider of plant deliveries, has launched physical facilities, one of which is…
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Italian architect Francesca Perani has teamed up with design studio Bloomscape to create a reversible fit-out for this clothing store in Milan, which is dominated by a flexible gridded shelving system. Perani and Bloomscape installed the grid with its moveable shelves as a way to let the On-Off store effortlessly change its display arrangements. A
Spanish design studio Nagami has completed a shop interior for sustainable clothing brand Ecoalf near Madrid that is almost entirely 3D printed from recycled plastic. Walls, shelves and display tables inside the store in the Las Rozas Village designer outlet are made from 3.3 tonnes of repurposed plastic waste, sourced mainly from hospitals and used
