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Project • By MOLD architects • Shops

COT - Centro Ottici

The project focuses on the renovation of an optics store, dating back 40 years. The store is a landmark of Nea Smyrni, Athens, located in a prominent site on the square by El Venizelos Avenue. At the heart of customer demand lays the radical renovation and overall design of a new, recognizable business brand identity. The main challenge we faced was the volume of information assembled in a confined space of about 50sqm a multitude of distinct infrastructure elements, counters with glasses, benches, drawers, furniture, lightning, and visible air conditioning systems, paired with a large amount of heterogeneous exhibits, all contributed to a loaded environment, which was both tiring for the visitor and failed to showcase the product. The prod... More

Project • By COPLAN - CONCRETE SHAPING • Shops

DIESEL FLAGSHIP STORE

DIESEL opens its doors in Manhattan, with a new concept store at 625 Madison Avenue, prestigious location for the well-known Italian fashion brand. Design by architect Masamichi Katayama of Wonderwall, Japanese architectural firm in Tokyo. The concrete cladding of the facade captures the light to accelerate the natural atmospheric oxidation, decomposing the polluting elements through a process called photocatalysis. Concrete precast elements made by Archiform of Trescore Balneario (Italy). Moldmaking materials delivered by COPLAN: two-component, shrinking free elastomer type Reckli Formenmasse PU-48. More