Creative retail

Landini Associates has reunited with T2, over a decade on from their first collaboration, to deliver a new concept store at Melbourne Central. The project is the first stage in a reinvention of the brand ahead of its 30th anniversary in 2026. Trevor Mein Steeped in History – Tea Beats FashionLandini Associates and T2 first worked together in 2014, on the company’s HQ, their Australian retail formats, and the brand’s first international stores in London and New York. Celebrated for celebrated for “rethinking the tea house for a new generation”, that work received global recognition, including the prestigious Retail Design Institute of America’s International Store of the Year award. The project famou... More

It is the first spatial home for POPMART’s character Hirono — a quiet sanctuary where reclaimed wood and concrete imprint time, memory, and healing into a looping form of quiet resilience. WenStudio WenStudio WenStudio WenStudio WenStudio WenStudio WenStudio StudioProfile StudioProfile More

Located in the new Google headquarters, the Store is designed to activate curiosity and educate the public about the company’s hardware offerings and design process. A sinuous, spine-like sculptural installation winds through the space, providing a 120-foot-long continuous interactive display. With a focus on human physiology and interaction, the spine engages the user at multiple heights and scales to promote discovery with drawers to open, informative visual graphics, and 3D interactive displays. Adam Rouse Mark Wickens The Store is a primary hub where people from all over the world can visit, interact with products, and learn more about the company’s design process, ethos, and production methods. The surrounding co... More

Best Practice Architecture teamed up with Waxology — a boutique waxing studio that highlights well-being and natural beauty enhancements — to design a warm and inviting space to welcome guests. Located in South Lake Union, the boutique features delicate paint colors, warm wood cabinetry, and custom shelving to display Waxology’s best-selling products and merchandise. Dain Susman Dain Susman Dain Susman The design team utilized the boutique’s natural light, incorporating live plants and comfortable seating for visitors to sit back and relax as they wait for their appointment. Behind them, a large, leafy mural anchors the lounge and provides a pop of color. Dain Susman Dain Susman Dain Susm... More

We designed a cool and quirky retail store for a budget conscious lingerie brand.E-commerce lingerie brand Clovia aproached us to create a one of kind retail store for them in a student centric market, Sarojini Nagar. Their brand focuses on young, fashionable and budget conscious women and the retail store concept had to speak to that fact. We tried to create a space that was fun, attracted shoppers and contributed and grew the brand image.  Suryan & Dang We approached the store as an extension of a ‘girls closet’. Using fun and quirky accents over a neutral base, allowed the merchandise to stand out , as well as look fun and youthful. Customised wallpapers with fun quotes add to the stores charm. Suryan &... More

When designing the hair salon, we were mainly inspired by an image of a desert after a storm – We were inspired by the variety of shapes formed by the wind, the effects of weathering or erosion and the fascinating ways nature shapes caves and chisels rocks to create amazing forms. We wanted the interior of the salon to reflect this mood. The salon comprises: 2 floors, 15 hairdressing stations, 2 barber stations, manicure and pedicure stations and a VIP room. NOKE designers gave all walls, reception desk and staircase a curvy look, so that they bring desert shapes to mind. Thanks to large shop windows facing the street there is an abundance of daylight inside. Designers used special programs for designing impossible figures, hence the... More

With the opening of the Department Store Ludwigsburg, DIA – Dittel Architekten has brought to life an exciting shopping experience that covers over 11,000 square meters for the fashion and lifestyle company Breuninger. The architectural redesign seizes upon everything that consumers expect from modern stationary retail: Exclusivity, emotionalization, personalization and a unique quality experience. The aim of the new concept is to offer an exciting and interactive shopping experience. Caption Caption Online shopping is becoming increasingly competitive with the offline world and pushing traditional retailers to reinvent themselves: Consumers are looking for a unique and individual experience when shopping offline. For this... More

Pearl River Mart started almost fifty years ago, when the relationships between the US and China, were non-existent, it was since the beginning a symbol of friendship between the two countries, an attitude which, during the years, evolved into a beloved neighborhood Institution. TRA studio TRA studio has worked with PRM since 2001, when we were approached to design a vast 20,000 square feet space in SoHo, followed in 2008 by the 10,000 square feet Pearl Home, to house the vast Emporium that constitutes the Pearl River Mart’s diversified merchandise, encompassing over 15,000 products, ranging from inexpensive home goods to the most curious and expensive. The SoHo store already incorporated some of the support spaces that are now... More

Despite innumerable challenges and an ever-changing retail landscape, some entrepreneurs have managed to find hard-earned success. When small business owner James Mohaber decided to renovate his rug shop in a bustling Californian metro area, he wanted to create an image that reflected that triumph. He envisioned a storefront that demanded to be noticed, and ALPOLIC metal composite materials (MCM) helped him bring his vision to life.   Caption The original storefront of James Royce Rug Gallery did little to stand out among the neighborhood boutiques. The simple, gabled house design of the showroom appeared too washed out in the busy West Hollywood district. Shops along La Cienega Boulevard benefit from a consistently high volume o... More

ERGON Agora East is located in Pylaia, a few kilometers outside the city of Thessaloniki, and re-uses an old industrial shell of 1970s, of 2500 sq.m. Redefining the supermarket experience, ERGON Agora East is organized in such a way that many different activities take place at the same time. The supermarket offers an extensive variety of fresh products, refrigerated and on shelves, and also has a wine cellar, a coffee roastery, and co-exists with the restaurant, the bakery and the patisserie. The unique element of the surrounding space with a total area of ​​6000 sq.m. that reaches the sea, gives the opportunity to expand the experience outside, with a new type of vegetable garden, where among others there are canteens, a beach bar, a play... More

Incorporating a futuristic theme with objects that seemingly defy gravity, as well as a playful approach to volume and shape, IEW.H’s flagship store makes for an attention-grabbing addition to one of Shanghai’s primary shopping streets. Through contrasting materials and a cool, modern palette the shop delivers a unique shopping experience that has been designed for maximum impact.  experience entering the space Challenged with creating an out-of-this-world retail space in the heart of Shanghai, Kokaistudios transformed fashion label IEW.H’s futuristic brand concept into playful design elements for its 259 sqm flagship store. A striking frontage incorporating unexpected materials draws shoppers into a space that... More

A unique experience The new store is conceived more as an experiential space rather than a shop, being unique in the world of retail and featuring the latest 3D printing fabrication and audiovisual technologies. It is conceived as an interactive exhibition space where digital dimension informs the physical and viceversa. The Presentedby shop is located at the ground floor of Level Shoes, world's largest luxury shoe store spanning over 96,000 square feet within The Dubai Mall. Even before going in, the customer is captured by a double funnel-shaped entrance covered with screens that uses outstanding projections images starting right away the fully immersive experience. Presentedby features interactive and dynamic projections on the floor,... More

Microtel is an effort to create a flexible build that allows the user to present their different reading from the space. The spatial organization of the  project is based on the dual "visible" and "hidden" and the definition of different uses of the space in this dual is looking for an economic solution to reduce expenses and speed up the process of implementation. At the same time, the project tries to minimize its borders with the city (only one glass facade) and inform it’s user free of uproars, advertise and turbulence the urban walls. The project has a quiet presence on the urban wall and presents itself to the city only with a brief sign that extends from the roof to cover the installation parts. In this duality, the stor... More

Shenyang Jiuwu Culture City, a 24 hour “book mall” in Shenyang themed with the design concept of “Tree of Cultural”- a page on a book, a leaf on a tree. “Book-ladder culture” as the focal point of the project is meant to reflect the atmosphere of reading under the tree, where this area also served as a main event space to held seminars and autograph event. Lighting effect penetrating through origami like elements from walls and ceiling becomes a nostalgic element to show a new culture of the city with a growing lantern that never goes of. With its design and new way of operation, the cultural plaza has now become one of the major landmarks in Shenyang, demonstrating a revolution of bookshop and shopping e... More