Retail Focus

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s new location is in the capital’s St James Quarter , which opened in 2021 and is now a landmark destination offering the largest retail and leisure district the city has ever seen. Old Meets New Edinburgh is one of the most historic and picturesque cities in the UK and the perfect contrast of old meets new.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

CBRE didn’t provide a breakdown of the number of Australian retailers responding about their 2023 growth plans, but 61 per cent of them indicated they were planning to increase the quality of store locations. For the period of October to January, the ABS described retail sales as flat contrasting with the more bullish assessment of CBRE.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Axel Arigato shop-in-shop is located in Selfridges. Metal lines the walls of the shop-in-shop. The concept was in contrast to other sneaker brands at the time, which typically displayed as many shoes as possible across shop walls. The photography is courtesy of Axel Arigato.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Fashion house Bottega Veneta has opened a boutique designed by its creative director Matthieu Blazy inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade in Milan. Sculptural polished metal elements form the door pulls and clothes hooks, their smooth surfaces contrasting with the more textured golden planters and entrance handles.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

With one in seven Australians shopping online every day, Peter Jackson saw the need to improve its digital offering. In contrast, he said, the current e-commerce site is “like one of our premium flagships and something we’re really proud of”. Data will shape how we fill out the shops moving forward.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

Located about 15km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, Morris Moor is well placed to tap into the growing demand for city-style dining, shopping and working options in the suburbs, as offices continue to embrace telecommuting beyond Covid-19 lockdowns. The suburbs in contrast are booming. Get people off the couch and into stores.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2023

Leading outdoor sportswear brand Helly Hansen has unveiled its new concept store at Chadstone Shopping Centre. An elevated display featuring sharp angles, contrast materials, and impactful lighting. Located centrally within the store, it draws the customers attention into the key products on display at that time,” he said.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 9, 2023

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. The 300-square-metre shop features tactile surfaces and playful motifs that reference the process of tailoring.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips. Towards the end of 2020, we saw a growth in localism, people working from home, staying home and shopping local.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The quality of a shopping mall gets expressed through a broad menu of attributes: tenant mix, mall design, navigability, ease of access and egress, parking spaces, safety, how clean the toilets are, and so on. Platinum Group, owner of Platinum Fashion Mall in downtown Bangkok, has presented us with a starker contrast than usual.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Global streetwear brand Ksubi have opened their first UK standalone store, located in the heart of Soho on 10 Carnaby Street. The basement level will feature an exclusive private shopping space, created to host Ksubi’s VIP customers, as well as customer personalisation workshops.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

In fact, according to IBM, omnichannel is now the preferred way of shopping for a quarter of global consumers. Examining online, mobile app, and in-store shopping experiences, the findings underscore a pressing need for digital transformation among most brands to unify their commerce strategies.

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Retail Focus

JULY 30, 2021

Bally’s new London flagship on 106-112 Regent Street is located on the city centre’s famous thoroughfare and housed in a historic Regency building. A focus on materials creates an open, flexible space with visual contrasts, a central Bally Haus feature.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Used books are displayed in supermarket-style crates at the Deja Vu Recycle Store in Shanghai , which local studio Offhand Practice has designed to counter the "shabby" image associated with second-hand shops. The Deja Vu Recycle Store is located in Shanghai's Anfu Road. Green mosaic tiles were used to frame the building's windows.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. Rather than being a cumbersome obstacle, the pillar helps organise the shop's circulation and movement of shoppers, according to the studio. "It

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Dezeen

JANUARY 11, 2024

Halleroed designed the store, located on Mount Street in the upmarket Mayfair area, together with Totême founders Elin Kling and Karl Lindman. Halleroed chose to redesign the store's ceiling to reveal its windows In the middle of the Totême shop, Halleroed created a stone-clad cube that holds shelves, vitrines and niches filled with artworks.

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Retail Focus

JULY 5, 2021

Situated in the heart of London’s luxury shopping district, the Chaumet boutique on New Bond Street reopens its doors this Spring. Dedicated to a selection of exceptional High Jewellery and the Maison’s iconic collections, this unique location is imbued with an intimate identity, bridging British elegance and Parisian distinction.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

Designed as an inspirational place to meet, explore and shop; Frasers boasts a range of beauty, fashion, premium and contemporary accessories and designer childrenswear. Located in the Mander Centre, in a unit once home to a Debenhams, Frasers Group have invested millions to transform the building into a premium shopping destination.

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Dezeen

MAY 26, 2023

The restaurant, which sold cockney dishes such as jellied eel and pie and mash, had been located on the east London street since 1900 but was given a modernist update in the 1930s. Pale yellow tiles bordered by bands of contrasting blue and turquoise tiles decorate the walls.

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Dezeen

MARCH 17, 2024

The store is located within Palazzo Carcassola Grandi, which was originally built in the 15th century and now occupies a prime spot on Milan's Montenapoleone fashion street. This was precisely how he thought of his shop, as a place to come together and converse.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Pat Nash Managing Director at Falcon AM, asset managers for Blanchardstown Centre, commented: “The arrival of Nike Unite will further enhance our existing tenant mix, keeping our offer compelling for visitors and brands alike – reinforcing Blanchardstown Centre’s position as Ireland’s pre-eminent out of town shopping location.

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Dezeen

APRIL 2, 2023

Designed by the company's in-house team, the permanent Glossier Boston location on the city's bustling Newbury Street follows a pop-up at the Seaport in 2019. With our 10th Glossier location, we wanted to bring something special to the city that honors its metropolitan and scholastic personality," said the team.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Phnom Penh’s reputation as an up-and-coming retail hub took another stride forward on Thursday, 15 December, when Japanese retail and shopping centre giant Aeon staged a soft opening for its third mall in the Cambodian capital , in the southern district of Meanchey. The mall, on a 1.74 Aeon 1 has 68,000sqm and Aeon 2 has 85,000.)

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Dezeen

JUNE 25, 2021

Designed by local firm Studio Edwards , the first flagship store by optometrist Vision Studio is housed in a shopping centre in the city's Glen Waverley suburb. The shop is located in a Glen Waverley shopping centre. Half of the store's 3.6-metre-high Photography is by Tony Gorsevski.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 25, 2022

This retro colour scheme is paired with a woollen carpet by German brand Findeisen , frosted-glass sliding "meeting room" doors and contrasting lime green shelving. The studio wanted the shop to be a tribute to working life and to help customers realise the benefit of in-store shopping experiences versus purchasing online. "We

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Barber Design

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This month we are taking a look at 17 inspiring jewellery shop designs, in the first of a new series of blog posts exploring how different retail sectors use distinct strategies in both their retail interiors and their approach to customer experience design. Cartier, New Bond Street, London.

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Dezeen

JULY 18, 2022

Located on Broadwick Street in London's Soho, the two-storey boutique is the brand's second outpost and first international flagship, designed in collaboration with London-based West Architecture. Aimé Leon Dore's first international flagship is located in London's Soho.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

A new online shopping site is set to launch in Australia this month that aims to update the traditional outlet mall experience for a Gen Z and millennial audience. In contrast, TheDOM.com plans to provide an “inspirational” and “elevated” shopping experience through its site design and tone of voice.

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Dezeen

JULY 26, 2021

Located two blocks away from Place Vendôme, the Off-White Paris store extends over three floors of a 19th-century corner building. Black terrazzo floors are contrasted against Sottsass veneer display cases. Travertine stone is contrasted again bright colours and shiny metal displays.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 7, 2022

Located within a Grade II-listed Edwardian building on New Bond Street – a luxury shopping destination in the city's West End – the new flagship store has a floor area of 466 square metres dedicated to men's and women's accessories, ready-to-wear and fragrance collections. Fragrances are displayed within an octagonal room. "It

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 14, 2021

American beauty brand Glossier has opened its first international flagship store in London's Covent Garden neighbourhood, featuring an ornate logo designed to reflect the shop's historical location. The Glossier "G" logo has been given an ornate twist. Modern elements are blended with the building's historical details.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 4, 2021

Browns Brook Street, located at 39 Brook Street in the heart of London’s Mayfair, is an enchanting destination designed to immerse you in a curated world of fashion, fine jewellery, food and culture. Built in 1720, the heritage site located on the corner of Avery Row and Brook Street, has had an illustrious history.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In contrast to search-oriented e-commerce based on keywords typed in, interest-based e-commerce uses AI to understand consumers’ habits and behaviour on social media platforms to orient their purchases,” she told Inside Retail.

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With many Americans working from home at least a few days per week, consumers are craving accessibility, one-stop shopping and easy parking. Traditionally, retail shopping centers outside of malls included one or more large anchor tenants (e.g., As a result, strip malls are seeing an increase in foot traffic during weekdays.

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Dezeen

JUNE 6, 2021

The Forte Forte store is located on Via Borgognona, a street in the heart of the Campo Marzio – the 4th rione, or district, of Rome – that was once full of artists. The duo wanted to create a store interior that would sit in contrast with the building's traditional travertine facade. Top: green onyx covers the interior of the store.

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Dezeen

JULY 24, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a shop for fashion and lifestyle brand Holzweiler in Chengdu , China, informed by its Norwegian heritage. Located in Taikoo Li mall in central Chengdu, the 130-square-metre store is Norwegian brand Holzweiler 's first outpost outside of Scandinavia.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 12, 2023

The shop in the El Born district features walls, floors and stuccoed ceilings all covered in soft, tranquil tones of seafoam green, creating an immersive experience designed to challenge the eye. "So It was done manually, carefully and step by step to achieve the perfect state."

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