K-Beauty continues to grow, with increasing global and domestic interest. In particular, visitors to Korea now engage with everyday beauty experiences—such as hair salons, dermatology clinics, and beauty brand pop-ups—as key parts of their travel itineraries. Beauty is no longer just a service, but has become a distinct form of travel experience. This shift extends …
Seoul continues to blow our minds with innovative retail concepts, and the latest to do so, is the new flagship store of UVU. Founded only in 2017 by London-based entrepreneur and avid running aficionado Adi Gillespie (1990), the running-inspired men’s sportswear brand initially launched a number of pop-up stores in marathon-hosting cities across the planet, …
dongqi Design has renovated three different buildings into a multi-functional complex that integrates retail, exhibition, F&B and office spaces in downtown Shanghai. The project consists of a three-story brick-concrete building facing the street on the south side, an 8-meter-high factory building, and a single story brick-concrete building on the north side. The ground floor of …
The interior of Auga, an optical salon with specialist consulting rooms, was inspired by the process of seeing – a complex and precise biological mechanism. The shape of the space echoes the natural form of the eye, and elements within the interior reflect its internal anatomy. The color palette, shapes, and materials draw from the …
The Lavarice interior in Solaris Shopping Mall is a reinterpretation of the brand’s language through form, scale, and light: a space where soft, flowing shapes meet precise geometry, and architecture becomes corporeal and sensual. The sculptural fitting room—like an altar of light—creates the emotional center around which a transparent, fluid composition is built. Monochromatic sandy …
The design concept draws inspiration from the streaks left by stars slashing across the pre-dawn sky. These star trails represent time’s passage, each star’s arc marking a fleeting moment. Countless intertwining star trails compose the cosmic timeline. Cinema itself, an art form of time, transports the audience on a condensed journey through a lifetime or …
The interior of the Tempus store is a spatial statement about time as a personal experience and lifestyle. Here, the clock ceases to be a status symbol and turns into a set of moods: different, changing, alive. The architecture reflects this idea through a combination of heterogeneous objects — as if each zone speaks its …
As a pioneer in Korea’s telecommunications industry, KT is a leading IT services company that has evolved from wired to mobile communications, and now into a customer-focused digital platform. Through ongoing transformations in step with advancing technologies, KT has continually expanded how communication technologies operate within daily life and the range of experiences they enable. …
As a highly developed consumer market, Taiwan has its fair share of high-end boutiques where style-savvy dwellers can splurge, even far outside the sprawling capital city Taipei. The ISSEY MIYAKE brand is well-represented in the country, operating a large number of standalone stores for many of its coveted lines. In Kaohsiung, one of the biggest …
The interior design of an Eyewear Store located in Ashiya, Hyogo, Ashiya Optical Store.
