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 …
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 …
