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RMJM Dubai x Masdar City: Innovation Hub has been successfully completed

Design Middleeast

The lighting strategy emphasizes both functionality and aesthetics, ensuring adequate illumination while accentuating the textures and contrasts of surfaces and materials. This design choice not only fosters a connection with the surrounding environment but also reduces reliance on artificial lighting.

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New store for viral hit Humble Crumble celebrates the brand and process

Retail Focus

Through careful planning and a considered material palette, SODA’s design translates the company’s values and identity into the new premises, ensuring the space continues to be recognisable with the brand as it expands into this larger unit.

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Gonzalez Haase AAS evokes Iceland's volcanic landscape at 66º North store

Dezeen

Rammed-earth islands add colour and texture to the shop's interior Upon entering the space, visitors encounter a series of curved walls rendered in natural pigmented clay sourced from Cornwall in the south of England. The shop is located on Regent Street in London Gonzalez and Haase founded their Berlin-based studio in 1999.

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Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy combines glass bricks and walnut for first store

Dezeen

Glass bricks feature on the walls, floors and ceilings of the store Walnut wood panels frame the textured glass blocks. Wool carpets and mirrored clothes rails complete the interior scheme for the open-plan space. A spiral staircase leads to a second floor The woven pattern is echoed in the carving of walnut tables and columns.

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How to make the retail environment more sensory-friendly

Inside Retail

“Ideally I want shopping to feel like an enjoyable, relaxing experience, with lots of natural light, soundproofing, places to sit and cosy cafes. However, being ‘sensory friendly’ involves more than turning the lights and the music down — the sensory experiences of neurodivergent people is much more complex.

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Personalised diets, artificial smell tech: Is this how we’ll eat in 2040?

Inside Retail

“Advances in AI accelerating the normalisation of hyper-personalised food services can include technologies that combine insights from demand forecasting with other product data such as shelf lives, shipments, and other factors to plan optimal inventory,” he told Inside Retail.

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On Our Radar: HOBO, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

VMS

Although HOBO’s new store doesn’t boast a large square footage, the open floor plan allows for a streamlined shopping experience and offers an uninterrupted view of the merchandise. The light hardwood floors and white built-ins juxtapose varying shades of warm hues including deep reds, blues and golden browns.

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