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All that glitters
Paying homage to tradition and culture while imbuing the design with a contemporary language, Sabari Gold and Diamonds store by Parinamah is authentic, innovative and incredibly beautiful.
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Rag trade warehouse meets mid-century at AP Design House’s Henne store
Recalling the warehouses of yesteryear and reflecting the label’s own sense of restraint, Henne’s new retail outlet is turning heads in Melbourne.
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The retail centre designed to bring Chongqing’s streetscape indoors
CapitaMall Skyview is a new shopping centre in Chongqing, China designed by CLOU architects and offering a layered interior that mirrors the city’s distinctive urban landscape.
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Inside Hafary House: A new shopping destination for materials and design ideas
Designed by FARM, the newly opened Hafary House prioritises customer engagement through an immersive and sensory shopping experience. Here’s what you can expect.
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The eyes have it
Thanks to OnArchitects, a small narrow site is now an exciting destination for eye care needs as design leads the way in experiential retail.
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Imagination without constraint: Casa de Zanotta teaches us a thing or two about retail
Inspired by a forest of stone, and created as a place to showcase the iconic Italian furniture brand Zanotta, this retail space is unconstrained in its vision of what a new-age shopping experience should be.
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This BMW showroom experience invites you to sink into a sci-fi wonderland
This BMW showroom, called the Sustainable Intelligence Exhibition Hall, blends a virtual reality-inspired shopping adventure with a revelatory ‘in real life’ experience.
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Enter this alien landscape via a 21-metre dune
Atmospheric and moody with a stage-like dune, Various Associates sets a pristine white stage for this epic SND retail store.
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All that is gold – jeweller Cushla Whiting opens her Sydney showroom
Jeweller and former architect, Cushla Whiting has worked with Prue Dabelstein to craft her Sydney jewellery showroom. Gold highlights, cork flooring and plush furniture create a space that is at once breathtaking and intimate.
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Kokaistudios delivers destination shopping-hospitality experience in CITIC SQUARE
Dynamic and futuristic, Kokaistudios’ latest renovation transforms a twenty-year old shopping mall into a modern lifestyle destination with a new architecture that complements its historic surroundings by creating new vistas and possibilities through seemingly floating pixels.
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All about the theatre: 3 Deep’s Hardy Brothers flagship
3 Deep distils the creative direction of Hardy Brothers’ brand into its Sydney store experience. And the effect is quite breathtaking.
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Amorphic and beautiful – Hyundai Seoul department store
We take you to the largest department store in South Korea, where Canadian firm Burdifilek has envisaged a boldly futuristic experience, interwoven with nature.
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SJB’s retail design for Calibre celebrates crafted simplicity
SJB has created a pared back, minimalist environment that showcases the understated luxury of the well-loved menswear brand.
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Why it takes a village: The rise of mixed-use developments
There is a craving for the boutique and a return to high-street style shopping experiences, not possible in our densely distributed air-conditioned shopping centres.
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Shop, but not. 5 fit-outs that recast retail
Retail has become a hyper-dimensional experience. While a destination may draw you in for any number of reasons – social, educational, personal wellness – shopping remains the ultimate act.
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There are no golden rules in retail – Russell & George
From hyper-real run-ins to fragmented customer profiles, Russell & George “slams” typologies to design spaces that make you put down your phone.
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A Mall With A Theatrical Heart In Shanghai By Kokaistudios
The newly renovated Shimao Festival City in Shanghai references the world of the theatre and incorporates public spaces of engagement and exchange.
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Announcing A New Age For Retail Design: The Region’s Best Shopping Experiences
Communicating brand values in an authentic manner is getting harder and harder. But what makes for excellent retail space design? Check out the best below!
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K11 Art Mall, Shanghai
A retail destination with artistic ambitions has arrived in Shanghai, China.
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Drawcard for creative athletes: MAAP LaB
With the doors flying open, MAAP’s latest retail store of exposed architectural design promises to represent the ‘creative athletes’.