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linear floating elements and reflective surfaces form this retail store in south korea

Design Boom

the design team added silver touches to the overall interior to provide versatile light effects through reflection and refraction. The post linear floating elements and reflective surfaces form this retail store in south korea appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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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 entrance takes the form of a large zinc-and-glass sliding door that is set into the facade of the building on Niebuhrstrasse.

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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." Green leather chairs and benches are accompanied by custom rounded wood tables and stools to form lounge areas.

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Hammerson lights up Grand Central, Birmingham with completion of upgrade works

Retail Focus

The initial phase of the improvement works focused on the addition of an innovative lighting installation – the first of its kind in Europe – by partnering with bespoke lighting specialists, The Light Lab. Energy efficient low power LEDs – on average running at 30% of their capacity, to create the movement and colour.

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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 micro-cement structures form the walls, ceilings and displays, pairing graceful curves with sharp geometric elements.

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AIM Architecture turns shopping mall atrium into plant-filled plaza

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Shopping centres don't have to "bright, white and shiny" according to AIM Architecture , which has transformed the Xintiandi mall in Shanghai by adding natural materials and plants. Architect Wendy Saunders, co-principal of AIM Architecture , said the aim was to bring nature into a type of space that is typically very sterile.

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Jörg Hugo’s bubble-like lighting tests the boundaries of hand-blown glass

Design Wanted

A recent boom in creative glassmaking has sparked a trend in unique, statement lighting like Jörg Hugo’s “Lightbodies” series, a collection of sculptural pendants that challenge the materiality of glass. Hugo’s aim is “to question habitual appearances of established typologies in design and architecture” – ©Jörg Hugo.

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