Retail Times

AUGUST 2, 2024

Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Leading lighting manufacturer Light Forms has illuminated the delicious rings of Krispy Kreme’s new Flagship store on the iconic Oxford Street, London.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For instance, when we walk into a cafe, our sensory mind reacts to things like the warmth of the lighting and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, which influences how we perceive the space we are in. The emotional mind: Designing spaces that evoke feeling Emotions drive purchasing behaviour far more than logic, every single time.

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Design Wanted

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The ceiling’s highest points, creating the illusion that natural light is pouring into the ‘cave’. Located on the first floor of a building surrounded by skyscrapers in Central Beijing, White Cave is a retail and gallery space that not only sells clothes but various designer pieces such as furniture and paintings.

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Design Wanted

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Italian lighting specialist, Lodes, has joined forces with Italian architect, Vittorio Massimo, to create IVY. IVY is a minimal, geometric lighting piece composed of a ring hanging on a cable, which gives power to a made to measure LED module. Space is dissolved by darkness. Light and space are inseparable.’

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From pop-ups to permanent retail spaces The strategic decision to pivot from pop-up activations to permanent retail stores reflects Staxs commitment to deepening its connection with its community and the strategic maturation of the company.

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The pendant lights reference a copper-verdigris clock tower "Bournville is an incredible relic of practical, clever Arts and Crafts architecture," Morris explained. The interior forms part of a project that includes the brand strategy, naming and concept design.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 17, 2022

Architecture studio Sybarite have created a retail concept for the new Theory flagship store located on 101-113 Regent Street. This will be part of a ‘connected retail space’ with Uniqlo, also owned by Fast Retailing. Seamless form and transition exist between the plaster of the walls and the ceilings.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The same wood variety forms a counter and storage for a repair shop in the back, which offers to mend Veja products and other shoes. An adjacent courtyard was also transformed to host outdoor events and activations, using red-hued wood panels, globe-shaped lights and a pergola.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Retailers within the pharmacy sector are evolving and exploring ways to best cater to consumers with the creation of one-stop-shop pharmacy retail spaces and superstores. It also features in-store pharmacists trained to complete dermatologist consultations, including Dermalux LED light therapy.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Read: Natural materials create "a sense of refuge" in Kyiv boutique Friends of Fashion "The juxtaposition of organic and geometric forms in the design was a deliberate effort to reflect the duality at the heart of the brand's identity," said Kanori.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2021

The immersive store format, which was two years in development, pulls together digital and physical experiences to meet customer demands for personalised, interactive and fun retail spaces. For a number of years we’ve seen the trend towards people visiting stores for high-quality, entertaining brand experiences. Image: Supplied.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With brands already doing their part, it is only right, and smart, that retailers follow suit and take similar steps to improve their sustainability. The good news for retailers is that there are plenty of changes, often simple, that they can make to bolster their environmental credentials.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Curved resin walls define this retail space , which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Gallery Shop comprises two resin walls that curve around its displays, with a gap between the two of them forming the entry point.

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Dezeen

JUNE 1, 2021

A spherical gateway and otherworldly light reflected through glass prisms feature in this skincare store in Hangzhou , China, which local interiors studio Lialawlab has designed around the theme of retro-futurism. Light reflected through glass prisms creates patches of rainbow-coloured light.

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Dezeen

APRIL 9, 2024

Five vanity rooms are each clad in distinctive coloured onyx or marble A teardrop-shaped column is located in the centre of the store, while boulder-like plinths positioned around the space are used for product displays. The textured display plinths were developed with a bespoke fabricator based in New York, who CNC-carved the forms.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. Soft lighting was also integrated between the petal edges to illuminate the store's exterior at night.

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Dezeen

APRIL 30, 2022

Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio has created a pastel "playground" as the first retail space for fitness brand Bala in New York City , which includes scaled-up versions of its products. A giant 12-foot-tall version of the Bala Beam is propped up against a mirrored wall that is divided by vertical light strips.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Metal has a broad application of surface effects and metallic tones formed through various methods such as electroplating and coating that bring a wow factor to the visual display. However, plastics as a base material in visual merchandising projects remains a popular choice in physical retail store design. .

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Dezeen

JULY 2, 2023

Black and white mosaic tiles form a pattern based on Ciele's apparel at the entrance to the store The 3,000-square-foot (279-square-metre) flagship store was designed by MRDK to be as much a boutique as a community space for runners to meet and socialise. In one corner, a 12-foot-tall (3.7-metre)

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The retail space is situated in the city's Clerkenwell neighbourhood, set inside a former tobacco-pipe factory now known as The Market Building. The resin 'dematerialises' the form of the cast, at points appearing crystalline, ethereal or fluid depending on the viewer's position and angle of light.". "The

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Dezeen

MAY 5, 2022

Below are 10 unusual retail spaces recently covered on Dezeen: Photo courtesy of Balenciaga. Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio designed this retail space in New York City for fitness brand Bala as a pastel-coloured "playground" containing giant replicas of its products. Balenciaga Mount Street, UK. Photo is by Ye Rin Mok.

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Dezeen

MAY 17, 2022

Indoor trees, natural light and a sculptural 12-metre-high waterfall help to create a calming shopping experience inside the Hyundai Seoul department store in Seoul , with interiors designed by Canadian studio Burdifilek. The second floor, housing high-end womenswear, is a neutral gallery-like space with a subdued tonal palette.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 3, 2024

Say Architects has designed a concept store for Nice Rice in Aranya "Due to the individuality of the site and the splendid geolocation, we hope to bring the orange sea of Aranya inside and build a gold coast that never ends by using light as expression, creating undulating volumes, intertwining lights and shadows," the architects said.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city's Liangzhe New Town. The delicate colour scheme also contrasts with the raw concrete ceiling, where exposed ducting and lighting tracks add to the industrial feel.

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All Work

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Biophilic design aims to improve our wellbeing by strengthening our connection to nature in manufactured environments such as hotels, retail spaces and offices. Our working day would revolve around natural light – as it still does for some workers in the farming industry. Natural light. ” 2.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Local firm SuperLimão was tasked with creating a retail space that would represent the brand and provide a memorable experience for shoppers. The chosen location was a 16-square-metre, two-storey space on Oscar Freire, one of the busiest avenues in São Paulo. Rope was used to form staircase railings. Lighting: LdArti.

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Dezeen

JULY 23, 2022

"DCA Milan's design intent for the project was to enhance the materiality and fine craftsmanship of Akris collections through a solid, three-dimensional architecture associated with a light display system, defining a space where carefully chosen materials take centre stage," said the design team.

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Dezeen

JULY 20, 2024

The two-level retail space was designed by BoND following the studio's work on the PatBo headquarters in Manhattan , which opened last year. An overarching geometry of soft curves is a running thread that ties all spaces together," the studio said.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 9, 2020

Translucent polycarbonate doors set in aluminium frames front the exterior to contrast the earthy aesthetic, and allow natural light and cross-ventilation. "By The general purpose is to create a contemporary element that, when opened, would bring back some lost time of ancient forms of construction, a slow passing of time, an earthy place.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

The avant-garde retail space, designed in collaboration with global design powerhouse Gensler, not only introduces a futuristic concept to automotive retail but also sets a new benchmark in sustainability and cultural integration. The centre pays homage to the cultural legacy of both Xi’an and Porsche.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Natural light pours in from expansive windows that are screened by sheer white curtains. Thick slats of oakwood align to form the balustrade of the store's staircase, which takes customers down to a shoeshine bar. The retail space includes a relaxing lounge area with bouclé seating.

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Dezeen

MARCH 11, 2021

Located in the Mall of Dhahran, the 100-square-metre retail space is the first flagship store for Dubai glasses brand Eyewa. Our wish was to move away from typical eyewear retail atmospheres," said Brocas. These are composed of repeated geometric shapes, complete with integrated LED strip lights and mirrors.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 7, 2023

Pop-up shops are temporary retail spaces created as locations for brands to sell their products, generally installed for only a matter of weeks or months. A squiggly neon overhead light took cues from the shape and energy of handwriting. The pieces formed an installation celebrating 30 years of fashion brand Mugler's fragrances.

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Dezeen

MARCH 30, 2023

Sometimes we start to design from memories, sometimes from form, materials and colours," added Andrea Tognon Architecture founder Andrea Tognon. It is located within a recently renovated retail hub The Milan flagship spans two floors and covers 380 square metres. For this project, I started only from words."

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Dezeen

JUNE 23, 2021

Natural-toned, undulating walls envelop the interior of the store and are illuminated by strip lighting set within the ceiling. The interior was divided and zoned into a collection of small sections each with its own functions, housing retail space, exhibition space and installation areas. Photography is by Inspace.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The 5,000-square-foot (465 metres) store includes retail space as well as art installations created for the store by Snarkitecture. The space used to be a warehouse. In order to light up the warehouse space, the studio added windows to the side of the structure and created a domed entryway, also with panelled windows.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the same statement, Tony Coelho, a former US congressman and the primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act, commented that the opening the new store built with inclusive design elements is “a big moment” in the effort to make retail spaces more accessible and inclusive. “We

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