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FOG Architecture adds playful tailoring motifs to Xiaozhuo boutique in Shanghai

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Chinese architecture studio FOG Architecture has completed a shop for local fashion boutique Xiaozhuo on Julu Road in central Shanghai that features oversized buttons and zippers. Its design was informed by a skylight in the site's original building, and creates a light-and-shadow effect that adds animation to the wall.

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PSLab's monochromatic Berlin showroom is a "sacred place for light"

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A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab 's lighting products inside the brand's Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. The newly opened studio occupies the ground floor and basement of a 1907 residential building in the city's Charlottenburg district.

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Italian modernist architecture informs Bottega Veneta store in historic Milan galleria

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I wanted to express the idea of a domestic interior referring to Italian modernist architecture that contrasts with the aesthetic of a spaceship and to capture the intimacy and the imagination of getting dressed." There are different experiences of space in the store," said Blazy. "I The photography is courtesy of Bottega Veneta.

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Liang Architecture Studio creates retrofuturistic boutique in Hangzhou

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Grand steel and micro-cement structures, celestial lighting and symmetrical layouts add a sense of ceremony to the shopping experience within this clothing boutique in Hangzhou , China by Liang Architecture Studio. The symmetrical concrete forms and orb-like lighting continue on the second floor, which hosts a VIP display area. "The

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Neri&Hu creates "wooden hut" and "cave-dwelling" interiors for Shanghai stores

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A wooden house structure was inserted into Jisifang Boutique "The design concept is inspired by French architecture theorist Marc-Antoine Laugier's Primitive Hut, said to be the fundamental prototype of all architecture," explained Neri&Hu. A double-pitch sloped ceiling was clad with the same concrete as the walls.

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Partisans sculpts limestone facade for Rolex boutique in Toronto

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Toronto architecture studio Partisans has used parametric modelling to create an undulating stone storefront for luxury watch brand Rolex. Limestone panels affixed to the building's exterior are shaped to echo the forms and textures of the brand's watches.

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Case-Real contrasts plaster and steel inside Aesop store in Shinjuku

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Coarse plaster walls offset glinting stainless-steel display fixtures in this restrained store that architecture studio Case-Real has designed for Aesop in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The locally based studio decided to use two contrasting materials that it felt reflected the dichotomy of natural and artificial – plaster and steel.