After 24 years ISSEY MIYAKE closed its store in Tribeca last December, but the forward Japanese fashion brand will soon return. In fact, it’ll officially open up shop on Fri – May 8, but now across town in New York City‘s Nomad area. Here, the company has secured no less than 1,200 sqm. (12,917 sq.ft.) …
Saweol Space reimagines a 23 m² corner unit in a mall atrium as a distinctive fashion retail store. The irregular floor plan and 5.5m ceiling maximize display potential and pedestrian flow.
It’s not only the silhouettes of South Korean fashion designer Wook-jun Jung that make heads turn. Similarly avant-garde, Jung has turned the retail spaces of his rising label juun.j into striking understated stages for his designs. Well-rooted in the homeland, juun.j has a sizeable retail network, including a flagship store in Seoul, which we covered …
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Located in one of the most iconic urban contexts of Lisbon, the Zara Rossio project reflects a precise and careful approach to contemporary architecture in Portugal. Developed by Contacto Atlântico, one of the leading architecture offices in the country, this intervention demonstrates how high-quality architecture can engage with historically significant contexts while introducing a refined …
Messa House is a 350-square-metre retail space in Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed as a place to slow down, offering a quieter alternative to typical fast-paced retail environments. It focuses on how a person actually moves through and senses architecture, letting form, proportion, and material quietly shape the atmosphere instead of competing for attention.
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 …
