Retail architecture
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In 2025, fashion retail had a renaissance. Here’s our favourite store designs of the year
2025 was the year that fashion stores ceased to be just about fashion. Through a series of meticulously designed – and innovative – boutiques, brands invited customers to immerse themselves in their aesthetic worlds. Here are some of the best
By Anna Solomon Published
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Spice up the weekly shop at Mallorca’s brutalist supermarket
In this brutalist supermarket, through the use of raw concrete, monolithic forms and modular elements, designer Minimal Studio hints at a critique of consumer culture
By Anna Solomon Published
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Step inside Printemps New York, an enchanting new store
Thanks to designer Laura Gonzalez, this new retail mecca blooms colour, atmosphere and narrative
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Raw, refined and dynamic: A-Cold-Wall*’s new Shanghai store is a fresh take on the industrial look
A-Cold-Wall* has a new flagship store in Shanghai, designed by architecture practice Hesselbrand to highlight positive spatial and material tensions
By Tianna Williams Published
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Christian de Portzamparc’s Dior Geneva flagship store dazzles and flows
Dior’s Geneva flagship by French architect Christian de Portzamparc has a brand new, wavy façade that references the fashion designer's original processes using curves, cuts and light
By Herbert Wright Published
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Store concept by David Chipperfield Architects for Akris is simply ‘selbstverständlich’
An ethereal new store concept by David Chipperfield Architects for Akris is rolled out from Washington to Tokyo
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Rinascente is reborn in Rome’s Piazza Fiume courtesy of design studio 2050+
Rinascente in Piazza Fiume, Rome gets a makeover by Milan-based interdisciplinary design agency 2050+
By David Plaisant Published
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Modern monastery for cycling opens in 1990s industrial building in Copenhagen
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Ireland's best design shops
By Annie Quigley Last updated
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Tiger teams up with Misaki Kawai for a quirky collaboration
By Sam Clark Last updated
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Outside the box: Gwenaël Nicolas delivers thrills at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan flagship
By JJ Martin Last updated
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Soft opening: Tom Dixon launches Barneys pop-up and exclusive textile collection
By Julie Baumgardner Last updated
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Italian stone specialist Salvatori unveils its new London showroom
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Norm core: Normann Copenhagen creates a Technicolor kingdom in its revamped flagship
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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A sculptural coffee house by Mizzi Studio lands in London's Hyde Park
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Schemata design a cake shop for a food photography studio in Tokyo
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Upmarket flea-market: Rob Pruitt’s high-art bazaar hits the West Coast
By Michael Slenske Last updated
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Row DTLA emerges as a fully-fledged destination for design, fashion, food and more
By Carole Dixon Last updated
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Retail therapy: the Pompidou Centre’s design store gets a makeover
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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OMA to redesign Berlin's KaDeWe department store
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Philipp Plein raises the curtain on a theatrical Milanese showroom
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Seventh heaven: Alex Bellos walks us through Rejuvenation’s latest New York store
By Julie Baumgardner Last updated
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French connection: Silvera opens its first showroom outside of Paris
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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Shape shifter: Ace & Tate gives its Munich store a whole new perspective
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Outside the box: Birkenstock debuts a new mobile retail concept in Berlin
By Dal Chodha Last updated
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Eclectic shopping: Batavia celebrates 20 years with new Madrid flagship store
By Elisa Carassai Last updated
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Ibañez Shaw's Fort Worth Camera Studios land in Texas
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated


