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The new Vegas Sports showroom creates a quirky, exploratory shopping experience for sports lovers

Retail Focus

The design scheme employs subtle, subliminal hints that encourage people to explore the space: ample circulation space, and nooks that unfold within a meandering layout. . The interior displays are arranged in such a way that they reveal themselves as the shoppers traverse the space, pulling them deeper with exciting elements.

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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. Tenacious yet pliant art pieces cut through the centre, forcing an unexpected flow of traffic inside the space. 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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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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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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2021 Retail Renovation Competition – First Place: “Woolworth VA Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa”

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Scope of work : Renovating two existing floors and converting a basement-level garage into selling space. All the above-ground spaces are connected internally by an atrium that we relocated to be a more central spine for vertical circulation.”. BEFORE RENOVATION. BEFORE RENOVATION.