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New retail design

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about new retail design

Project • By Landini AssociatesShops

T2 Tea – Melbourne Central

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

Project • By Banker WireBars

Curved Coffee Bar

When heading towards this coffee bar, the first thing that catches your eye is the beautifully designed curved back bar. It's not just any ordinary bar; it's a masterpiece of steel and antique brass-plated decorative wire mesh that defines the space with elegance and functionality. The coffee shop's open concept, complemented by this unique centerpiece, adds a touch of sophistication while cleverly adding a backdrop to the appliances defining the space. Banker Wire Banker Wire The spotlight of this backsplash feature is the Banker TXZ-3 decorative woven wire mesh. This wire mesh was manufactured to size and then plated in an antique brass finish to contrast the black steel frame but tie in the warmth of the counter. Banker Wir... More

Project • By NDA design studioShops

SORTAGE 2.0

NDA Design Studio is pleased to present an updated version of the multi-brand store SORTAGE. This project, six months after the successful launch of the first store, represents something more ambitious and bold. With the same committed style, the new SORTAGE 2.0 is ready to amaze and inspire its customers. Dmitry Suvorov Dmitry Suvorov Caption The main task in creating SORTAGE 2.0 was to maintain the brand's recognizability while improving and expanding the store's representation. We achieved this goal by using as much of the commercial equipment from the first store as possible. These elements, such as display racks, cube tables, and fluorescent green shelves from NDA Design Studio, were skillfully restored and redistribute... More

Project • By Greater Dog ArchitectsShops

LEDING Bespoke

THE TRACE LEDING MENSWEAR BESPOKE DESIGN Design by Greater Dog Architects “Traces are invisible. They perceive the flow of time through objects.” - Greater Dog The designer, Jin Xin and Red Hu who founded Greater Dog Architects, was invited to visit the suit production studio and see the process of hand-making suit before they started LEDING Bespoke space design project. It was fascinated to see different fabrics, plate-making, tailoring, even old sewing machines and ironing tools. Therefore, designers brought primitive tools and machines back to space as the beginning of narrative. It is also hoped that people can not only see all goods, but reading the traces left in the production process. Rachel Wu & Red Hu... More

Project • By X+LivingShops

POPMART Global Flagship Store

POPMART, as a leading pop culture and entertainment company in China, has been committed to injecting new creative driver into China's pop toys industry. When art, design, painting and sculpture are fused into a delicate pop toy, it meets the imagination of Generation Z for beauty and trendiness. At the invitation of the brand, X+Living has joined hands with POPMART to create a global flagship store. The designer deconstructed the brand's culture and pop products and incorporated the most current new elements of the digital media to create a brand flagship store full of futuristic and technological sense. SFAP The project is located at the busy crossroad of Nanjing East Road, The designer took advantage of the unique opportunity for d... More

Project • By MetagramShops

Natural is Best Xiqu

Natural is Best is an established snack food retailer with dozens of stores located throughout Hong Kong and China. Metagram was engaged to design their flagship concept store located in the prominent West Kowloon Xiqu Centre for Chinese Opera. Steven Ko Interior Photography Metagram drew inspiration from traditional Chinese Opera sets, and added a contemporary twist in keeping with the art direction that the Xiqu Centre Cultural Team had set for its outlook. Steven Ko Interior Photography Throughout the design are Chinese inspired detailing, from the shelves’ various forms and lattice detailing which frame various features in the store. The bright colours of deep red and sky blue were inspired by colour symbolism in Chine... More

Project • By X+LivingShopping Centres

B.C. Glacial Water New Retail Store

Located on the eighth floor of Deji Plaza Phase II, the ordinary passage connects with the Deji Art Museum with rich cultural and artistic atmosphere. The owner hopes to build the passageway into a casual, elegant and unmanned retail space to perfectly embed into the closed loop of this artistic journey. The designer sorts out inextricable factors including art, business, visit and leisure in the space and transforms it into a miniature art museum. SFAP The spiritual realm comes in between the breaths. The designer intends to create moments of highlight for ordinary things, and pays homage to the Impressionist approach, thus creating an atmosphere of timelessness and conveying beauty of epiphanic moment in a new form. Breaking away fr... More

NewsNews • 28 Jan 2022

New Bananain Concept store in Shanghai seeks to re-design the basics

Located in the heart Middle Huaihai Road, a hub of Shanghai culture and history, the new Bananain Concept store by Some Thoughts draws inspiration from the existing architecture and diverse cultural background embedded in the site by re-examining and then re-designing basic elements. Shao Feng The 'Re-design the Basics' concept at the store defines Bananain as a brand by underscoring the importance of better functioning of everyday objects. This ideology has become core to the brand philosophy.  Shao Feng Throughout the design process, Some Thoughts sought to reprocess objects often seen in daily life and change the way they are commonly understood. For example, instead of the common understanding of columns as being suppor... More

Project • By Phoenix WharfShops

Better Food

Bristol-based hospitality and retail designers Phoenix Wharf have just completed a new store and café-deli for local ethical foodie heroes ‘Better Food’, who first set up their independent organic, local and ethical food business 30 years ago, starting out supplying veg boxes in the city. The business, which employs over 100 people passionate about food, health, the planet and its customers, has now opened its fourth store - a new 3,000 sq ft combined retail outlet and café-deli on Bristol’s lively Gloucester Road – the UK’s longest road of independent stores. Phoenix Wharf, a locally-based design agency passionate both about sustainability and helping local businesses to flourish, was the perfec... More

NewsNews • 8 Jul 2021

Google Store New York by Reddymade offers the first retail experience of its kind in Manhattan

On the ground floor of Google headquarters in Chelsea, Manhattan, Google Store New York marks the brand’s first retail space in the city. Designed by Suchi Reddy (Founder of Reddymade Architecture and Design) and Ivy Ross (VP of Design, UX and Research, Google Hardware), this new retail experience is built on the core principles of neuroaesthetics.  Paul Warchol According to the architect, Reddymade’s work follows the belief that ‘form follows feeling. Good design, calibrated carefully to the human, positively influence wellbeing, creativity and productivity.’ Playful and pragmatic, the resulting architecture and interiors are an expression of this motto with spaces that re-awaken visitors to the childlike... More

Project • By CROXShops

Wu Duo Menswear

Wu Duo Menswear In a day, when sun rises and sets down, a man's work and life is constantly switching, so his sense and sensibility. Based on the brand's duality, CROX designs a “No or Less” space , as Wu and Duo the store name stands for.   Dynamic and Static In the beginning of the design, we hope to present the time and space comparison within: Firstly, we distribute the store into two visualization and divide the whole space into two halves, the front is the clothing display place, on the back is the service counter area. In order to make the dynamic visual more prominent, our design in the exhibition area breaks the general middle island clothing store display, taking the concept of overhauling the hanger int... More

Project • By Design for Human Nature GmbH (feldmann+schultchen)Supermarkets

tegut... teo

Fully automated mini supermarket tegut... teo with modular design and wooden construction complements the store network in hyperlocal format Fifty square metres – that is the size of the unmanned mini supermarkt tegut... teo designed by the Hamburg-based studio design for human nature for the grocery chain tegut.... The digitalised self-service local shop is the physical answer to online shopping. Grocery stores are the shops that many people visit most of all. With tegut... teo, the daily shopping experience is once again being brought closer to people. The fully automated mini supermarket enables people in urban quarters and smaller communities to shop easily and conveniently in the immediate vicinity. It is set to appear in p... More