Retail design

To create a unique retail concept with global impact that answers the challenges posed by todays rapidly changing consumer behaviour, specifically in the automotive sector. The traditional Porsche Centres mostly located far from the inner city, are in need of metropolitan city touch-points to find new ways of reaching and connecting with their customers. So the showrooms need to become a fascinating, elegant and attractive urban drop in point. Ken Schluchtmann Showing aesthetic confidence and creating a shopping landmark is key. Positioned within the retail hotspots of the world, the Porsche Studio comfortably sits next to e.g. Givenchy, Prada, Louis Vuitton and the likes. Ken Schluchtmann Porsche’s precision, dynamics &am... More

To create a unique retail concept with global impact that answers the challenges posed by todays rapidly changing consumer behaviour, specifically in the automotive sector. The traditional Porsche Centres mostly located far from the inner city, are in need of metropolitan city touch-points to find new ways of reaching and connecting with their customers. So the showrooms need to become a fascinating, elegant and attractive urban drop in point.   Showing aesthetic confidence and creating a shopping landmark is key. Positioned within the retail hotspots of the world, the Porsche Studio comfortably sits next to e.g. Givenchy, Prada, Louis Vuitton and the likes.   Porsche’s precision, dynamics & uncompromising engineerin... More

Placed in the main comercial street in the center of Malaga, this space is the first to show the work previously developed with the brand designing a prototype store to adapt to its new openings.   The brand values (technology, modern design, vegan materiality) ​​are transmitted through the use of a reduced palette of neutral materials (concrete, white lacquers and the corporate blue) with the counterpoint given by the wood to introduce the warmth into the space.   The result is a bright and spacious store that does not need superfluous details, leaving the facilities seen avoiding the use of false ceilings as a recall to the image of the moonlanding of these new and technological designs on the shopping street. More

A Micro-Urbanism on an Unprecedented ScaleThe Dubai Mall is a retail project that defies categorisation due to its massive scale and complexity. It is not just a piece of architecture; it is a construction in a space of vast scale, and it possesses the complexity of an urban centre. Measured by covered area, it is among the largest malls in the world. Yet building a record-breaking mall was not the goal for DP Architects. Instead, the important principle throughout has been to develop a piece of architecture that will continue to be enjoyed by the entire family while giving retailers the most efficient and functional working environment. Catering to both the visitor and the retailer has created the best shopping experience in the world... More

An impetus for unionAesop Piccadilly Arcade, designed with Studio Luca Guadagnino, is poised at the Piccadilly entrance of the historic locale in a curved corner store. Within the rounded windows, stucco panels become mock Tudor cabinets from the street and form a portal that heralds a change in atmosphere. A dialogue of languorous corporeality is held between two storeys, which are united by a light well piercing the first floor’s slab.Once inside, two boulders interlock to form a central basin where the store’s knowledgeable consultants can help customers explore products best suited to their needs. Stone tiles radiate geometrically from the basin in a nod to the architectural heritage of Greenwich. A singular sink nestles into the expose... More

The Design Village Penang is situated in a distinctive corner plot, strategically positioned across the linear park and flanked by a waterway. Within close proximity to Penang International Airport, the Design Village provides a unique destination retail development and residential complex intimately tied with the rest of the city of Penang.Design Village Penang emphasises the unique characteristics of Penang’s streetscape to cultivate a cohesive master plan. The Design Village itself is in a natural, single-storey, naturally-ventilated park which features cool, well-sheltered verandah walkways and connectors, nestled within a lush tropical garden setting. The architectural approach is one that is contemporary, stylistically international a... More

Opened in spring 2018, Campus Hamburg is the freenet Group`s new training center in Hamburg, Germany. Here, the company’s employees and trade partners are brought together for training and qualification programs. The design company Preussisch Portugal has created an inspiring interior design concept based on the sights of the city: the spacy entrance area resembles the Hamburg Harbour and meetings rooms are based on different parts of the city like the famous red light district „St. Pauli“, the Hanseatic villa district of „Blankenese“, the trendy „Schanze“ and an extensive botanic garden called „Planten un Bloomen“. This way, orientation is provided and visitors have a truly unique training experience while staying at Campus Hamburg. Preuss... More

A quarry is the evidence of man’s action on nature; a universe in which men unintentionally sculpt pleats and volumes that result in a strange and visually striking geology. A manufactured landscape*, an organic architecture created by the trace of the search for raw materials, which brings us back to the origin from which the raw materials come. The captivating and unique nature of this landscape nourishes the concept. The access through a small opening in the monolithic facade links the visitor with the central space of monumental character, the "arrival to the quarry", the Agora. It is the starting point to begin a new journey of museographic character, where the multiple exhibition halls - with materials of diverse characteristics–... More

SOHO approached AIM with a challenge: imagine a shopping centre as a new type of office. 25,000 square metres of blank space, already built for retail. Transform it into a co-working space, part of SOHO’s new 3Q brand that Forbes has called “Uber for offices”. SOHO is known for pure white. AIM is vibrant. Offices are divisive. Shopping centres are built on a massive scale. Bridge the gap. The first consideration was approach. AIM decided it had to be bold. Strong colours and strong patterns would add life to the often-drab mall (and do double-duty as way finding). The space would be used by ambitious entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies not tied to old models. Bosses looking for more than a corner window in a glass tower. I... More

Less than a year after designing the award-winning New York Flagship store for Innisfree, we were engaged once again by the Korean beauty brand to develop a new global retail concept and to create their retail design guidelines. To initiate the process, we traveled to Seoul to conduct interviews with the brand’s executive leadership and to lead a full day workshop with their in-house design team. Continuing our deep immersion into the brand, we explored Jeju Island to experience firsthand the lush volcanic landscape where the ingredients for every Innisfree product originate.   Armed with the findings from this adventure, we created an elevated and experience-driven environment for global implementation in multiple store format... More

Allen international has helped JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC) design its new flagship retail store within its global headquarter campus in New York City. Opening June 25, the new location at 390 Madison Avenue provides an integrated experience that combines digital concepts and technologies. The new physical location has open lounges, private offices and flexible spaces that can accommodate a variety of community events for different audiences.   “Our flagship branches are meant to be experiential locations where the brand truly comes to life for our customers,” said John McGinley, Head of Real Estate, Chase Consumer Banking. “That can be through community events and conversations on financial health, or a place wh... More

Valise is a retail space nestled in the lower levels of Union Station, Toronto’s historic train station and transit hub. Dating back to the 19th century, Union Station is a Beaux-Arts public building that used resilient materials like stone, brass, cane, and ceramic tile. Valise combines the heritage protected building with contemporary retail design for juice brand Greenhouse Juice Co. It takes inspiration from the design of turn-of-the-century suitcases which were lined with fabric and secured with brass hardware. The interior of the shop, like the fabric lining, is treated with precious finishes that line the walls to create a continuous display cove. Its shelves are brass, and its interior is lined with hand glazed vibrant green t... More

A 1000 sq. ft. retail design project was undertaken in 2016. Located in the West Queen West shopping district of Toronto, it reimagines what storefront retail can be. The designstripped down the existing retail space and exposed 100 year old masonry walls and plumbing. Scope included renovation of the existing space for use as a co-location of a plant shop and cold-pressed juice store. Design included several millwork fixtures, interior finishes, lighting, new storefront construction and landscaping.   Toronto’s typology of long, narrow, and dark retail spaces is re-imagined as Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole (from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll). The weight of the store is balanced by the Queen Street frontage an... More

Between 1999 and 2015, “fast casual” dining grew 550 percent to achieve $21 billion in sales, quintupling its share of all restaurant expenditures. While this category has its roots in the early 1990s, a turning point in its growth arrived in 2003, when Tom Colicchio and Sisha Ortuzar launched ’Wichcraft. The spinoff of Tom Colicchio & Company’s famed Craft Restaurants eschewed the notion that portability could not equate thoughtfulness, priding itself on sandwiches and other prepared foods that support local farmers and ethical business. The concept took shape in 10 ’Wichcraft locations. More fundamentally, it created a new farm-to-table benchmark of fast-casual eating that has since defined the entire category, and underpinned its met... More