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Glass blocks divide Eye Eye optical store by Best Practice Architecture

Dezeen

Local studio Best Practice Architecture has used punchy colours, glass bricks and dichroic glass inside an optometry store in Seattle 's Leschi neighbourhood. For Eye Eye 's second location, founder Will Pentecost got back in touch with Best Practice Architecture , which had completed the brand's first brick-and-mortar store back in 2015.

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Linehouse creates greenhouse-informed food market in Shanghai

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Architecture studio Linehouse has wrapped a food market in a Shanghai laneway neighbourhood around a central atrium informed by Victorian greenhouses. Each stall was assembled from a kit of parts, so that the vendors are able to create their own signage and layout, but maintain a consistent material and lighting palette.

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Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer

Dezeen

On the interior, Chinese architecture studio Offhand Practice hoped to create a relaxed shopping environment despite the large number of goods on offer, which includes more than 2,000 pieces of clothing. Both levels have an open-plan layout with circulation routes defined by shelving and clothes rails.

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WGNB creates minimal monochrome SVRN store in Chicago

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A muted, monochrome selection of materials creates a serene atmosphere in both of the spaces, while the architectural elements dictate purposeful paths that connect them. The spatial layout of the store considers the current that customer's circulation creates in the space with the objects and openness," said the studio.

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Isern Serra completes "serene" office for Spanish eyewear brand

Dezeen

Serra and his team positioned the kitchen and showroom at one end of the plan and placed the meeting rooms and client areas at the other, leaving the longer sides open to optimise circulation. A Boa Pouf by Sabine Marcelis provides informal seating Next to the lobby is a design area featuring tables made from concrete that was cast in situ.

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How the Pandemic Forced Convenience Stores to Change with the Times

VMS

More and more we see layouts designed to provide a precise way of guiding customers through space with minimal obstacles and barriers. Social distancing played a significant role in the layout and fixture design of this new 7-Eleven flagship in Manassas, Va. Social distancing played a big role in layout and fixture design.

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David Rockwell’s 2021 Oscars set is both “intimate and grand”

Design Week

The set design was developed to complement the existing architecture of the station, and evoke the “aspirational aesthetic long associated with Hollywood”, according to Rockwell Group. Rockwell designed four separate spaces for the ceremony, which helped to minimised congregation throughout.

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