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Vancouver clinic interior design is inspired by quarries
A new cosmetic dermatology clinic's architecture in Vancouver, designed by Leckie Studio, is inspired by geological formations
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Studio Arthur Casas’ enthralling biophilic retail space for +55design
Studio Arthur Casas creates a São Paulo store inspired by Brazilian modernism for brand +55design
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Borough Yards revives industrial part of south London as retail hub
We tour the newly launched Borough Yards by SPPARC, south London’s latest shopping and dining destination
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Celine New Bond Street: a carnival of materials, furniture and art
The French maison opens Celine New Bond Street, an art-filled flagship store in central London. Commissioned artworks by Nika Neelova and Leilah Babirye and a distinctively contemporary material palette contrast with the listed Edwardian building, reflecting artistic director Hedi Slimane’s vision of exacting opulence
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Palazzo Avino’s fashion boutique in Ravello is pretty in pink
At luxury hotel Palazzo Avino, a serene and sumptuous spot on the Amalfi Coast, The Pink Closet boutique offers guests an insight into Italian fashion, in an intimate space designed by Cristina Celestino
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OMA’s KaDeWe in Berlin rethinks shopping
OMA’s KaDeWe department store renovation in Berlin reveals its first phase and reimagines the world of retail
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Discover niche beauty brands at this Berlin concept store
Berlin concept store MDC Next Door offers expert beauty advice alongside under-the-radar brands and forgotten historic labels
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Apple converts 1920s downtown LA theatre into show-stopping store
Apple Tower Theater in downtown Los Angeles brings the roaring 20s into the 2020s
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Legendary Paris department store La Samaritaine reopens
Following an extensive redesign by a team of international architects and designers, legendary Paris department store La Samaritaine reopens its doors
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Kyoto soba confectioner launches store in wooden machiya townhouse
A celebrated Kyoto soba confectioner and restaurant, Honke Owariya, offers a custom-built outlet for its sweet treats courtesy of Osaka-based designer Teruhiro Yanagihara
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Browns Brook Street looks to the future of retail in Grade II*-listed London building
Browns Brook Street opens its doors in London's Mayfair in a historic, 18th-century location
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Minor Rose hair salon in NYC uses mirrors, minimalism and metal
Architecture studio Also Office creates a perfectly formed jewel-box interior for the new Minor Rose hair salon in Gramercy Park, New York
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Running brand On fixes the ‘broken experience' of shoe shopping
In a year that pressed pause on the world, high-tech running brand On only gained momentum
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The homely mid-century stylings of Nanushka's new London boutique
The Hungarian label opens a home-inspired townhouse flagship in Mayfair, designed by Paris-based Festen Architecture
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Redesigning The Silver Room community space in Chicago
This Chicago boutique and community space – which champions local artists, designers, and Black-owned businesses – undergoes a makeover courtesy of architects Future Firm and designer Norman Teague
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Nike's chief design officer John Hoke on the future of retail design
Nike's new Paris flagship points towards the future of physical retail, with a digitally-integrated approach
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Escher GuneWardena designs Woven showroom in LA
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we are looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. 2000 Architects Directory alumnus Escher GuneWardena Architecture is now an established, prolific West Coast studio, and here we visit its latest offering, the showroom for rug brand Woven, in Los Angeles.
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OMA revolutionises department store architecture with Galleria Gwanggyo
Trails of rugged glass disrupt the impressive stone façade of the Galleria department store designed by OMA to bring daylight and city views to shoppers. For South Korea, the design is a revolution in department store architecture, which usually tries to keep customers oblivious of passing time and fully absorbed in the retail experience
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Locatelli Partners imagines a cloud-like grocery store in Vietnam
The old meets the new in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City with Locatelli Partners' Le Square, a new grocery concept store enveloped in a semi-transparent mesh cladding
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Adrian Cheng’s art-meets-retail K11 Musea in Hong Kong embraces the digital world
A galaxy of architects, artists and designers have joined forces to create an out-of-this-world art and retail complex with millennial appeal in Hong Kong. The immersive ‘phygital’ shopping experience rethinks the city's ubiquitous, inward-looking megablock malls, aspiring to become a ‘cultural Silicon valley’.
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A sculptural coffee house by Mizzi Studio lands in London's Hyde Park
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Esrawe Studio designs conceptual retail space for Grupo Arca
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AIM designs steely cosmetics boutique in Hong Kong
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Frida Escobedo designs Aesop store in Park Slope New York
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Chinese history inspires a bookstore design by Tomoko Ikegai
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The new mall: 21st century iterations of retail architecture
As Hudson Yards launches its shops and restaurants complex, we explore how architecture and design are shaping global retail experiences, and how the ‘mall’ has taken on a whole new identity
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MoreySmith designs a global HQ for Dunhill that embodies the brand through the details
