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Creating an effective retail space

Design Middleeast

From a boutique perspective, online shopping craze is gaining popularity. So, how can a retail space be called successful in given so many factors? Although we add curious elements throughout our designed spaces, functionality, and aesthetic purpose are at the core of our designs.” Online prices are harder to compete with.

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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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Mirage opens Palace Dubai Creek Harbour & Residences

Design Middleeast

Boasting a premier waterfront address, it offers strategic views of the Creek as well as providing guests and residents with a unique perspective of the city in the distance. The design is a blend of form, function and sustainability, setting new standards for premier living in Dubai.

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Builders: Enablers of collaboration

Inside Retail

During recent years, the pace of evolution in shopping centres has escalated, as owners and landlords re-imagine their spaces to encompass new, different, and elevated roles in the communities they serve. In addition, the common spaces needed to coordinate all the different elements into a cohesive, connected space.

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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. While the western perspective looks at the object itself, the eastern perspective rather focuses on the surrounding relationship of the object."

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Simone Bonanni sculpts spaces with wallpaper collection Second Life for LondonArt

Design Wanted

“Second Life” is the paradox: a three-dimensional motif generates an inaccessible space on the wall which should instead delimit it. Designer Simone Bonanni comments on the Second Life collection: “Living space is that free void between physical objects. Objects, in turn, give it a precise shape.

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Trillions in revenue and a million jobs: Unpacking JD.com’s 20-year roadmap

Inside Retail

The business got its first big break in 2003, during the SARS outbreak, when Liu saw an opportunity to capitalise on the burgeoning e-commerce sector and began selling products online to customers who were eager to avoid public spaces. A year later, Liu closed his bricks-and-mortar store and moved the business fully online.

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