Toogood used metal framework and mesh panels to mark out linear spaces on two floors of the Oxford Street store for the new Agender initiative – an experiment to provoke conversation about gender targeting in fashion and retail. Fashion, beauty and lifestyle products in the dedicated areas are stripped of all branding. Meanwhile, clothing and accessories from over 40...
Yoshioka designed the interior in a similar style to his London flagship for the fashion brand, using exposed concrete walls, mirrors and dyed aluminium panels. "The design expresses two contrary times, which are history and future, by contrasting between a texture that has been created over a long period of time and the futuristic triangles," said Yoshioka. Instea...
Nendo designed the shop in Tokyo's Ginza district as the first overseas store for BbyB – the chocolate company set up by Antwerp-based Michelin-star chef Bart Desmidt. The colourful packaging of BbyB's flavoured chocolate are displayed like paint swatches, arranged within a perspex case that runs through the centre of the long, narrow space. "Because the chocolates...
The Tokyo-based studio led by architect Jo Nagasaka transformed an old steel-framed factory building in Sumida ward to create the three-storey workspace for Takahashi Hiroko, an artist and textile designer who creates graphic monochrome prints for kimonos. A private studio surrounded by planting is contained within a volume on the uppermost floor, while the two preced...
Having previously designed shops where shoes seem to walk through the air and protrude from the walls, Nendo's concept for Camper Stockholm features spirals of white paper-thin material that create display stands for footwear. Rather than actually using paper or cardboard, the designers worked with two-millimetre-thick resin flooring to create the coils in a variety o...
São Paulo-based Atelier Marko Brajovic created the store interior as part of Camper Together – an ongoing project by Spanish shoe brand Camper that invites architects and designers to create unique products and store interiors. Behind the stark white and glazed frontage of the shop on Lonsdale Street in Melbourne, 30,000 red shoelaces were attached to a false ceiling ...
Pawson's design for the Christopher Kane shop – which opened earlier this month on London's Mount Street – features an off-white palette, mirrored surfaces and transparent display cases. "We both wanted to make it comfortable, for people to feel good [in it] and for the clothes to look good against an amazing backdrop," Pawson told Dezeen. Located within a conserva...
The Okomeya rice shop and cafe is located within an old timber-framed building in the Tokyo district of Shinagawa-ku. The 16.5-square-metre space has two open sides lined with plywood units that face onto the shopping street, while a home for the owner is located at the back. Schemata Architects was commissioned to design the space by Owan, a developer that has also o...
The space is located within a two-storey building by the city's South Bund dockyard, described by the firm as the "gangsters' warehouse" in reference to its former proprietor. Huang Jinrong was a prominent and senior ranking Chinese officer in the French Concession Police. He was, however, believed to have strong links to Shanghai's criminal underworld, including an i...
The barn is joined to one end of a rural home in Armorica Regional Natural Park, Brittany, that is owned by an artist and his family. They asked French-Brazilian architecture firm Modal Architecture to convert the tumbledown structure into a studio for drawing, engraving and printmaking, while maintaining the old facade made from pieces of schist stone. A birch ply...
Karim Rashid has overhauled the interior of an existing space, adding organic forms to create the Fun Factory's third store, which sells sex toys, lingerie and bondage gear. "For the Fun Factory Munich store I was determined to create a retail environment filled with desire, emotion, and passion," Rashid told Dezeen. "Although the physical architecture of the existing b...
The Dutch design studio was invited to create the artist's residence – called Room on the Roof – inside a small tower on the roof of De Bijenkorf, for a new program being launched by the department store in partnership with the Rijksmuseum on 27 January. A series of artists, writers, musicians, architects and designers will occupy the space, using it as a base to work...
The Reformatory Caffeine Laboratory by Louise Nettleton is situated behind the garage door of an old driveway. A frosted glass and black-framed shopfront concertinas from ceiling to floor like a garage door, as a reminder of its former use. There is standing room only in the 3.5 by 15 metre space, so customers drink at the bar. The L-shaped counter is made from matte st...
Created by Swedish design agency Adolfsson & Partners, the offices for interactive game developer King are split over two floors within a large 1940s building located at Sveavägen 44. The spaces are divided into zones themed around different landscapes, incorporating characters and designs from King games. The agency's aim for the project was to design "a creative ...
Product and interior designer Pillet was invited by the founders of Ex Nihilo to create their first store with a design that would offer flexibility and set the tone for the perfume house's future retail outlets. The flagship at 352 Rue Saint-Honoré, which features a wall of modular shelving and steel worktables suspended from the ceiling, opened in December 2013 and ...
Jo Nagasaka, founder of Tokyo-based studio Schemata Architects, was asked to convert a former storage building in Tokyo's Kiyosumi-Shirakawa neighbourhood space to create the new space for Blue Bottle Coffee. As well as a cafe and roastery, the building hosts the business's Japanese headquarters, a barista training room and a pastry factory.The architect inserted larg...
The five-metre-long pine counter was sourced locally and forms the focal point of the Aesop Garosu Store, designed by Wise Architecture to occupy a space in Seoul's Gangnam luxury retail district.The walls and ceiling of the shop are covered in sheets of hanji, a traditional paper material handmade from the bark of the indigenous mulberry tree. The paper has a staggered ...
Matthew Grzywinski and Amador Pons were commissioned to design the reception and bar of Urban Villa, a 100-room boutique hotel in a new-build tower in Brentford, west London. The space had already been finished with clean white walls and suspended ceilings, but the architects wanted to make it appear more rustic so they stripped away the new finishes to reveal the servi...
Parlá is well known for his exuberant large-scale paintings, so for the new studio both he and Snøhetta chose to combine the industrial details of an old factory building with a monochrome palette – allowing the artist's work to stand in contrast. Working together, they divided the space up into two sections, referred to as "the arena" and "the nest". One is a double...
Design firms Group A, Studio Makkink & Bey and Roukens + Van Gils were jointly responsible for the interior design of The Municipality of Rotterdam's new headquarters, spread over 33 floors in the central block of the skyscraper. The offices are organised so the 22nd-floor reception hall and the 21st-floor restaurant form the "city centre", while work spaces, meeting ...
Berlin-based Hidden Fortress was asked to design a flexible interior for the Bazar Noir shop at Kreuzbergstrasse 78, to accommodate the store's constantly changing display of unique objects and accessories for the home. The store's owner Catherine Pfisterer wanted the firm to keep the high ceilings of the existing space as well as retain some of the atmosphere that th...
Aesop Hamburg is located in a glass-fronted ground-floor unit of a nineteenth century building in the German city's ABC-Viertel quarter. The 112-square-metre space contains a retail area at the front and a facial treatment room – Aesop's first in Europe – at the rear. A pared-back theme and natural materials were chosen to match "the building's location in a listed an...
Kengo Kuma's firm was commissioned by Spanish shoe brand Camper to redesign the interior of the company's Monte Napoleone store, in the central shopping district of Milan. The plywood grid formation the firm created divides the vertical surfaces into a series of cubby-holes for displaying shoes. This network spreads across the ply-backed walls of the 50-square-metr...
Like the first two of Shamil and Kavi Thakrar's London restaurants, the third Dishoom pays homage to the Irani cafes that sprung up around Bombay – now Mumbai – during the first half of the 20th century. The Thakrars modelled the new restaurant on a "godown" – or warehouse – they imagined behind the Indian city's Victoria station. In their story, an Irani immigrant se...
The bakery sits inside the shell of a converted house with timber walls and a pitched tiled roof, which is located in a residential area of the Japanese city. Rather than ripping away the facade to create the customary floor-to-ceiling shopfront, the architects wanted to retain the domestic appearance of the building. Instead, they inserted a long narrow window with a...
Parisian architect Estelle Vincent added the wooden structures to the Champs Elysees headquarters of marketing and data consultation firm Ekimetrics. "The challenge of the project was to find a way in this heterogeneous 1,000-square-metre space to carry an image that is both consistent and corresponding to the identity of Ekimetrics – mathematical in its expertise in ma...
Ninkipen! used a variety of materials for the interior of Ito-biyori cafe to create a "simple and warm atmosphere". "The main idea of this design is to make the atmosphere harmonise with the organic foods that are offered in the cafe," said architect Yasuo Imazu. The small Jabuticaba tree grows from a chunky square planter, positioned opposite the large mirror that...
Spark, which also has offices in London, Shanghai and Singapore, has opened its new Beijing base at the Liang Dian Design Centre – a complex of design studios and exhibition spaces in a converted 1980s office block in Dongcheng District. Occupying the second floor, the studio is entered through a glazed box emblazoned with the pink lettering of the company logo. La...
The workplace for Mortgage Choice is located in Melbourne's South Yarra district and was designed by Australian studio B.E. Architecture to be distinct from the company's other branches and from conventional offices. "While quite refined, the office is more like a studio with a comfortable, relaxed aesthetic," claimed the architects, adding that the interior offers "a...
Named F Coffee, the small brick cafe occupies a site near the airport in Dong Hoi, a city in Quang Binh Province. Principal architect Le Vu Quang wanted to create as simple a structure as possible, so came up with a design for a quadrangle building made up of brick walls and arched openings. "We usually start with the most basic and easy-to-understand ideas," Le Vu...
Gottlieb Paludan Architects has specialised in developing buildings for the energy sector since the 1940s. Tasked with creating a series of new structures in Copenhagen and the village of Marbjerg, the team developed a historically sensitive approach that they felt would offer an update to the traditional vernacular of industrial buildings. Each of the facilities is loc...
The 720-metre-square building designed by the Swiss architects for Miu Miu occupies a site on Miyuki Street, close to Omotesando Street, which is home to a string of luxury fashion stores designed by renowned architects. Miu Miu is led by Italian designer Miuccia Prada, who commissioned Herzog & de Meuron to create their seminal Tokyo Prada store on the other side of ...
Murman Arkitekter placed the Brenner Bastu (Brenner Sauna) on the edge of a timber jetty in Saltsjöbaden, a resort just outside Stockholm. Saltsjöbaden was founded by Swedish politician and banker Knut Agathon Wallenberg in the 1890s as spa and water sports retreat. The Brenner Sauna was commissioned by the owners of a villa by Torben Grut, the Swedish architect who des...
Located close to a motorway just outside the town of Ardooie, the headquarters for Rob Systems was designed by Bruges firm Govaert & Vanhoutte to house a showroom, offices and a production hall. The choice of cladding materials for the various spaces was determined by their different functions. The manufacturing area is completely closed off behind walls of concrete or...
The headquarters for steel fabrication firm Lootens Line is located by a canal on the outskirts of the city, and was designed to accommodate offices, meeting rooms and a showroom. The new structure adjoins existing warehouses that CAAN Architects renovated and extended to house the client's own manufacturing machinery. A small office between the warehouses and a road t...
David Adjaye's firm – which has also just revealed a £600 million scheme for London's Piccadilly – will overhaul the 17-storey building known as Hallmark House, in the South African city's fast-developing Maboneng district. The 66-metre-high building was completed in the 1970s to house a growing diamond polishing industry. It will now accommodate apartments, as well as ...
