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Gentle Monster opens HAUS SHANGHAI

Retail Focus

Gentle Monster has launched the latest HAUS project, a new vision of “Future Retail” that defies stereotypical notions of commercial space. In addition, various forms of collaged media art and aesthetic furniture provide a distinct F&B experience. HAUS SHANGHAI provides more than a commercial experience.

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Reflecting pool centres XC273 fashion boutique in former Shanghai towel factory

Dezeen

Set across three floors, the XC273 retail space houses designer showrooms and pop-ups alongside a small cafe, as well as providing spaces for temporary exhibitions and events. The building is organised around three voids, which now form the basis of the store's circulation routes.

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Glass blocks divide Eye Eye optical store by Best Practice Architecture

Dezeen

Cutouts in the low ceiling add extra height to the Eye Eye retail space Unlike the inaugural space, the new store does not benefit from tall ceilings and a strong street presence. So the architects had to get creative to turn the "drab" commercial building into a fun and inviting environment. It's an eye care clinic reimagined."

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

Dezeen

One of the main challenges for the studio was to encourage passersby to walk through the building's ground floor – consisting of a long corridor bookended with space for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) equipment– and climb the stairs to reach the Deja Vu Recycle Store. Second-hand books are displayed in supermarket-style crates.

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WGNB creates minimal monochrome SVRN store in Chicago

Dezeen

The space for lifestyle brand SVRN is intended to highlight the products for sale as artworks and ideas, rather than simply as garments. 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.

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AIA Estúdio designs cave-like interior for clothing store in Rio de Janeiro

Dezeen

A large pillar with a rough, textured surface dominates the 110-square-metre shop interior, expanding as it ascends before merging into the ceiling to create a cave-like space. Its height starts small and in the back part it ends higher in a nonlinear form, just like a cave," AIA Estúdio founder Alice Tepedino told Dezeen.

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Botanical WiFi

Retailing Insight

Similarly, every day humans use technology to stream invisible waves of energy through space to receive texts on cell phones, listen to music on the radio, or watch moving pictures on a computer or television. Just as technology transmits information through space, so do flowers. I like to call it “Floral WiFi.”. Flowers Have Energy.

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