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In 2013, the Artee Group of Nigeria appointed ANA as primary design consultants for their retail real estate development projects. Artee is the largest retail supermarket player in Nigeria and represents SPAR as a brand.They successfully owned and operated 9 hypermarkets, prior to their foray in the retail real estate segment. Nigeria offers great opportunity, being a hydrocarbon producer and exporter, as well as boasting a largely young, urban and literate population.The aspirational Nigerian population was driving a huge consumption-driven economy, and the Artee Group wanted to create long term value, by providing well designed and well serviced modern retail malls in key cities. Being themselves the anchor tenants (as a SPAR hypermarke... More

Bamboo, you simply cannot ignore it in the largest shopping center in Italy. The CityLife Shopping District, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, shows the versatility of the natural material. With its distinctive curves and smooth forms, the architect brings an unprecedented dynamic into the shopping mall. The warmth of bamboo emphasizes the welcoming effect.   CityLife sets a new standard for living and working   CityLife is a completely renewed neighbourhood in Milan with museums, apartments, offices and recreational area. This has been built in the old market district of Milan, close to the historic city centre. Tre Torri, three prominent residential and office towers, designed by Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeski... More

Combining the ease of shopping at high street bazaar with the leisure and hygiene of a modern shopping mall. The complex is Conceptualized as a fusion of a high-street market and an exuberant Shopping mall with a Cineplex, food court, anchor super markets, office spaces with world class amenities. The development is fully loaded with high-end residences wrapped in world-class architecture for luxury living. Designed along the colonial-inspired, colonnaded architectural theme with a wide frontage on the main road, the mall is equipped with ample parking on ground and two basements, escalators for all retail floors, High speed lifts, A High-quality facility management system etc.   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

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

For the concept of the Ports1961 Flagship Store located at the Bund in Shanghai, we had been inspired by two important factors; its history as an international port and its art-deco style. We recycled an old Chinese house and CNC-ed the wood into a fluid liner for the collection. This sculpted base features accessories such as bags, shoes and jewelry. Like an oyster, the rough outer wood walls reveal the soft glowing pearly white volumes inside, which generate a more gallery-like atmosphere. Here mannequin bodies are suspended in space, highlighting the collection’s main pieces. The mannequins are lit from above and below by recessed lighting, accentuating the fluidity of the fashion pieces. Movement created by the flagship store’s clients... More

The Selcuklu Vadi project in Istanbul, designed by TAGO Architects offers unusual perspectives onto its location with its sculptural form, dynamic mass and façade organisation.Designed by Tago Architects, Selcuklu Vadi consists of eight blocks with a total construction area of 110.000 sqm. With its sculptural form, dynamic mass and façade organisation, it offers unusual perspectives onto its location. Selcuklu Vadi is a pioneer in the newly developing property investment areas in the vicinity. Located in Sancaktepe, very close to the bypass and Trans-European Motorway access roads, and to the underground railway line which will soon pass in front of it, the estate will offer users the advantages of easy access. The proje... More

The Aqua Portimão Shopping Mall is located in a densely urban area on the periphery of the town of Portimão, on the west coast of the Algarve, Portugal. It is an open air shopping mall on three floors linking the different levels of the surrounding area. The inside areas of the mall are covered with a delicate pergola consisting of structural steel trees supporting a horizontal trellis covered in multi-coloured glass and timber brise-soleil. This will provide the necessary sun and rain protection and create a colourful canopy over most of the mall.  More

The proposal involved the transformation of an exhausted standalone hypermarket box with attached retail units into full blown state-of-art shopping mall keeping it as an anchor area of the future Shopping Center.The building was designed in three different levels in which the first two ones embrace multiple stores leaving to the upper floor the exclusive use of the cinema complex. Due to the topography conditions of the plot the new parking floors couldn’t be completely underground. As a result, the exterior is marked by a new basement volumetry where all the Shopping Center settles down. The design of the new commercial area is kept as a simple longitudinal geometry creating a conceptual reference alignment. The Southeast part o... More

The proposal for the architectural competition for the refurbishment and extension of a twenty year old Jumbo (Auchan) hypermarket in Setubal was conditioned by site and planning restrictions. The project involved the transformation of an exhausted standalone hypermarket box with attached retail units into a full blown state-of-art shopping mall. An adjoining plot was acquired for this purpose. This meant that the mall had to be developed almost entirely to one side of the hypermarket. The design process started with resolving the linkage between the existing parking with those proposed under the new extension. The municipal road dividing the two plots meant that they could not be simply linked horizontally at all levels. A system o... More

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Project. Bal Harbour Shops in Miami Beach, Florida is superlative in every respect. The prestigious open-air shopping mall has the highest sales per square foot of any shopping center in the world. It features the finest retail establishments in a setting that epitomizes luxury. Concept/Design. The canopy’s mechanized retracting structure, referred to as En-Fold, deploys the SEFAR® Architecture TENARA® Fabric, gently and quietly unfolding it until it stretches out completely flat to form a translucent fabric roof. This happens with the push of a button on a wireless remote control. It was built for Bal Harbour Shops’ inner courtyard, an event space that requires a retractable solution to shield it from rain or harsh sunlight, improv... More

As a main Ceiling,SCS and WCP consultants we have been invited by arch.Filip Pokorny to make a technical solution of their custom made Baffle Ceiling. Vertical panels of the ceiling were designed with a "wave shaped" bottom line in three different forms. Dimensions of panels were really big - span of supports was 9 m and the max. panel height was 850 mm - what fact together with a fireproof requirement resulted into a honeycomb 36 mm sandwich structure use. Such a big panel was not possible to be installed in one piece - we made a special cutting plan which consisted of 6 different parts which allowed us to assemble all three panel shapes. To reach and clean the skylight above the Baffle ceiling a sliding panel installation was also demande... More