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HAS uses frosted glass to “blur boundaries” in Chongqing bookshop

August 23, 2021 Alice Finney 0
The interiors of The Glade Bookstore in Chongqing

Translucent glass shrouds the books within this bookshop in Chongqing, designed by architecture studio HAS Design and Research. Located in Chongqing’s dense city centre, The Glade Bookstore is a bookshop, restaurant and exhibition space designed to act as a “spiritual and restful place” in the otherwise bustling Chinese city. HAS Design and Research (HAS) drew

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67 Southwark Street Residential Building / Allies and Morrison

August 14, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

67 Southwark Street is a new sixteen-storey residential development, a tall, slender marker building occupying a tiny site on a sharp corner in Bankside. Just nine flats share the building, six of which extend over more than one floor to create five different apartment types in total: 3 single floor units; 4 duplex units of two different formats; 1 storey unit; and 1 three-storey unit occupying the uppermost floors. At roof level, a resident’s belvedere offers panoramic views over London.

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Modes Porto Cervo Store / Gonzalez Haase Architects

August 12, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

For their first store in Porto Cervo, in the iconic setting of the Promenade du Port, the luxury fashion retailer joined forces with the architecture duo Judith Haase and Pierre Jorge Gonzalez of Gonzalez Haase AAS to create a unique space. The store would reflect their shared interest in merging unique locations and visual arts in a space concept that offers an experience of its own.

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Kanishka Start Store / ARC Architects

August 10, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The store for the Kanishka brand of clothing and accessories is located on the first and basement floors of a 5-story residential building built in the middle of the 20th century in Tashkent. The first floor is characterized by high ceilings and large windows opening onto the street.

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Vincenzo De Cotiis pays homage to Burberry check in brand’s London flagship

August 10, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Burberry London flagship No.1 Sloane Street by Vincenzo De Cotiis

Italian architect Vincenzo De Cotiis has designed Burberry’s London flagship store with mirrored lighting grids and chequerboard tiles that allude to the brand’s signature check pattern. Opened last month, the shop on Knightsbridge’s Sloane Street is spread over 857 square metres and three floors, which Burberry says were designed to “encapsulate the essence” of the

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Vincenzo De Cotiis pays homage to Burberry check in brand’s London flagship

August 10, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Burberry London flagship No.1 Sloane Street by Vincenzo De Cotiis

Italian architect Vincenzo De Cotiis has designed Burberry’s London flagship store with mirrored lighting grids and chequerboard tiles that allude to the brand’s signature check pattern. Opened last month, the shop on Knightsbridge’s Sloane Street is spread over 857 square metres and three floors, which Burberry says were designed to “encapsulate the essence” of the

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COS reflects 18th-century frescoes in Bolzano store with mirrors and mesh

August 8, 2021 Ali Morris 0
COS Bolzano store

Fashion brand COS added an installation of mirrored plinths and display stands draped in layers of transparent mesh to enhance and contrast the interiors of the historic Palazzo Menz in Bolzano, Italy. COS’s in-house design team inserted the site-specific installation to showcase the brand’s latest collection in the opulent ballroom of the palazzo, which was built in

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Kanemitsusyuzo Store / FATHOM

August 6, 2021 Hana Abdel 0

Located in Kurose-cho, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture. The project is the renovation of the direct sales office of Kanemitsu Sake Brewery, which has been in business since 1898. When I first saw the large wall of the sake brewery, a registered tangible cultural property visible from the national highway, I felt as if I were looking at a stratum of layers of the history of sake brewing.

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Saint of Athens jewellery store designed to resemble 1960s swimming pool

August 4, 2021 Alice Finney 0
a blue tiled interior

Creative agency Saint of Athens has used cool blue tiles throughout this jewellery store in Mykonos, Greece, for brand Gavelloto to make it resemble a “luxury 60s swimming pool”. Saint of Athens worked with Dive Architects to make the jewellery store stand out from the plethora of nearby retail stores. It includes light blue tiles, lockers

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Book Strolling House / Todot Architects and Partners

August 3, 2021 Hana Abdel 0

The client wanted to build a house for his family, a bookstore and a guesthouse as a spiritual shelter for the urban kids on a scenic site with Pyeongtaek Lake, as the background, filled with Pampas grass. It seemed like the client who used to run a cram school, felt disgusted with the way he was pushing the young people to the battlefield and always thought that he was getting worn out. Consoled and rewarded by reading books with kids, he decided to realize his dream with us to wrap up the competitive urban life, work on more meaningful things and live healthy.