The SnackBox has found home in the heart of Times Square. Ædifica and MuvBox have been recently awarded 2 prizes at the Retail Design Institute’s International Store Design Competition 2011: the first in the Pop Up Store/Shop category, and the other in the Special Awards category. The 20-feet long container was selected among about 80 proposals by local restaurant owners and had to comply with New York City’s security departments in this high traffic area.
The new Capsula Multi-brand Store is a stunning and elegant space located on Andrassy Avenue, an iconic boulevard in Budapest dating back to 1872, lined with spectacular neo-renaissance mansions and townhouses featuring fine-facades and interiors. In 2002 it was recognized as a World Heritage site. It is also one of Budapest’s main shopping streets, with high fashion stores, trendy restaurants and richly decorated cafés.
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Cross Rail Yard. Typically, a service building inaccessible to the public like this would be treated in a pragmatic and unremarkable way. In contrast, the Yardmasters Building confidently presents itself as a ‘public’ entity. Viewed in the round, it offers itself back to the city as an exquisite, mysterious box: a jewel in the junkheap. The project involved extensive consultation with representatives of the diverse users, their respective union representatives, and management and associated authorities.
Replay’s store on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona now hosts a vertical garden of just above 100m2. In the storefront location, the two storey wall is set in a dramatic and playful environment with waterfalls, sculptures and contrasting materials.
TIPS Fashion Store is located on the ground floor of an old French Mansion in the heart of the former French Concession of Shanghai.
The preexistence of the historic residential environment drove the design. The house is protected as well as all the existing details inside. The Store is located in the former dining and living room of the house, which kept the original woodworks, moldings, fire places, wood beams… Our design had to be a contemporary contrast within that classical ambience, respecting the existing but drastically changing the appearance of the site.
Front View (Images Courtesy JIANG Yong for ///byn)
Young architects dream about designing and building big houses. However, the reality is quite the opposite – they work on small scale commissions. FiuFiu boutique is one of those petite spaces and its concept is based on yearning for making homes even of papermache.
JENNER STUDIO DESIGNS NEW BOUTIQUE FOR PENHALIGON’S, SINGAPORE
London based design practice, Jenner Studio, has designed a new boutique in Singapore for Penhaligon’s, the heritage British fragrance house. From opening its first store on London’s Jermyn Street 140 years ago, Penhaligon’s, will now launch its first offering in Asia at the Ion Orchard on 15 August 2011.
This is a design of the store, which requires a visit by appointment, on an alley in Harajuku, Tokyo.
This space is intended to function as a sales agency and an authorised store of imported watches and a store selling related accessories. As it serves both as an agency and a store and sells expensive articles, we designed this as a space requiring an appointment to visit in which customers can personally shop and talk about business with its clerk.
In occasion of the opening of the new flagship store in Italy, Philipp Plein chose to collaborate for the first time with AquiliAlberg, a Milan-based architectural and design studio.
AquiliAlberg’s sculptural portal anticipate the fashion designer ultra-contemporary and luxurious world.
PHILIPP PLEIN opens his first flagship store in Italy and chooses the exclusive location of Versilia. The store, that counts as the seventh mono-brand store in Europe, faces the central Via 4 Novembre in a well-known and worldwide appreciated location where mountains and seaside create one of the most suggestive and sunny Italian backdrops. To accompany the opening, an inauguration cocktail party guests with an international flair. La bella vita. Forte dei Marmi represents an exclusive way of approaching life, style, luxury, fashion and beauty.
Our challenge: turning an old bank into a modern optical store in an old but trendy neighborhood of Paris, Le Marais.
This project is the result of a great team work between the firm and our clients. We designed the interior of the optical store in the spirit of the fifties adapted to meet the contemporary expectations of the customers.