Minorityrev Hirao Boutique | Fukuoka, Japan By Case Real

"A boutique that pursues a memory" - A project to convert a thirty-year-old-zipper factory building into a West Japan maximum level boutique in a residential area about two train stations away from downtown Fukuoka City. The inside, on the first floor I moderately arranged the space by retaining rough and strong factory details and I left as much as possible as there was in the factory of the existing to restore the floor. To take over the memory of a building that has existed in the region for years and to take a part as a new icon in itself, the outline of the building is covered by vines, not renewing its externals. Now a newborn, high fashion boutique covered by green is standing, coming to fit in the region like the green in the park and the trees on the street. Time may give the next value to this building......more

Salon du Fromage Hisada | Paris, France | kotaro horiuchi / kotaro horiuchi architecture

Title: salon du fromage hisada -uchi no naka no soto -
Location: paris, france
Direct order: oct 2008
Estimated completion: 2010
Client : fromagerie affineur hisada (sarl hisada france)
Architect : kotaro horiuchi / kotaro horiuchi architecture
Structure engineers : Bollinger und Grohmann
General contractor : iDESIGN Paris
Program : restaurant, boutique, gallery 

Plot area : 43 m²
Built area : 67 m²
Floors : ground floor and first floor of existing building
Design period : 11.2008 - 09.2009
Estimated completion : 2010
Structure : floor : stair / steel frame
Budget : 335,000$ BT / 260,000€ BT

Materials

Exterior : aluminium
Interior : floor / resin epoxy wall / pièrre composite ceiling / pièrre composite, corian interior CG,

Model : kiichiro komatsu
Photographer : koichi hirose

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Retail Interior Design | Children Fashion Store,Milk | Oakland, California By Nilus Designs

Milk is a children’s clothing and toy store geared towards 0-5 year olds. The major design elements in the space include custom 
millwork made of stained oak and steel, scored concrete floors coated with white epoxy, and the signage on the exterior storefront. A light color palette was selected to brighten the space and 
augment the natural light at the front of the store.

The custom millwork was designed by Nilus de Matran and fabricated by Randy Castalon at Maker’s Studio. All millwork is freestanding and can be easily moved if a reconfiguration of the store is desired.....more

Retail Interior | 24 ISSEY MIYAKE Shop, Tokyo, Japan | Nendo

Based on the concept of the Japanese convenience store, 24 ISSEY MIYAKE shops combine inexpensive prices, a large variety of colours and frequent changes in product lineup. The Miyake team wanted a new design concept for the 24 Issey Miyake shop in Shibuya's Parco shopping complex, which includes a store that specially features Miyake's new Bilbao bag.
The Bilbao bag has no set form. Instead, it settles depending on how it is placed. To match the bag, we abandoned the standard hard, flat and smooth fixtures found in most shops, and created a set of variable-height fixtures made of thin steel rods that stand like a field of prairie grass in the shop, with a similar vague, undefined shape like the bag. Shelving and hanger rods are also made of steel rods, in the 7 mm diametre common to all of the 24 Issey Miyake shop interiors. Supported by 'points', rather than by surfaces or lines, the bags seem to waft in the air like flowers in a light breeze, creating the illusion of a field of flowers in the store.....more

Retail Interior | Belfry Tashkent | Ippolito Fleitz Group

The city of Tashkent just celebrated its 2,200th birthday, but the Uzbek capital, once a stop on the Silk Road, has retained little of its ancient architecture. In 1966, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake mostly leveled the city’s historic center of clay-brick buildings. The Soviet Union rebuilt with modern structures lining wide boulevards. But in the decades since Soviet rule, the Uzbek government has redeveloped the area with an eye toward bringing traditional ornamentation back to the city’s architecture while creating a sophisticated capital that embraces an international brand of contemporary design.

One of its recent efforts, the International Forums Palace, anchors a prominent site on Tashkent’s Amir Timur Square. A large convention hall — and an outward-looking public face for Uzbekistan — it was designed by a local team, but officials decided to bring in Stuttgart-based Ippolito Fleitz Group for the interiors. Pleased with the result, officials also asked the German firm to design interiors for the adjacent Belfry Tashkent, a 3,600-square-foot retail space selling traditionally made jewelry, housed in a re-created historic bell tower....more

Retail Interior By Hayon Studio | Faberge Salon

The interior of the Faberge boutique presents an innovative approach to the High Jewellery experience, with its expression of modern luxury through simplicity and sensuality. The concept and design focuses on superlative craftsmanship, sensually minimal shapes and forms, and exquisite materials, including silk wall drapes, rare woods and Carrara marble. The materials used give the boutique an organic and dynamic feel balanced by a serenity that comes from the tonality of neutral, silvered metallic shades. Light and luminosity that flood the boutique form the central theme of Hayon’s interior design. Simple open spaces are bathed in the reflections of mirrors and in outside light that drifts through the tinted glass of cut-out gem-shaped panels in tall interconnecting doors.....more

Retail Interior By Issho | Tokyo, Japan

Shop interior project for an independent Tokyo fashion brand. The entrance door is made of plywood boards layered with shades ranging from white to dark blue. The shop floor is painted with a white base coast and dark blue on top. As the floor wears down over time, the blue fades and the white emerges, creating an impression of watery depth.....more

Retail Interior | Camper Shop Tokyo | Hayon Studio

Inspired by classic circus elements, this new project for Camper has colour and fantasy. The space is full of life and light, inviting people to dream. As soon as we step through the organic door, with a handle shaped like a candy cane, we begin to discover the surprises inside. There are no corners, only curved forms. There is an interesting contrast between the walls covered in Bisazza mosaic tiles, perfect and delicate, and the cement floor, basic and unfinished. The long, narrow centre table resembles a centipede. The coloured mirrors placed on the ceiling elongate perspective and give the store added warmth. These small touches of quality do not go unnoticed. The special areas are separated by bevelled glass panels reminiscent of cut gemstones. Colour filters create a magical transparency. The shop is fresh and elegant.......more at Hayon Studio

Retail Interior | Alessi Flagship Store,New York, USA | Asymptote Architecture |

LOCATION: New York, USA
SIZE: 2,750 sq. ft.
DATE: 2006

The Alessi Flagship Store at 130 Greene Street in SoHo opened to the public in September 2006. Commissioned to create a new identity for the Alessi brand, Asymptote designed not only the store’s interior architecture, but also all of its graphic elements from wall graphics to packaging to a unique modular display system. The store also features an espresso bar and gallery/exhibition area that expands the conventional retail program. In 2007 the store was named Travel + Leisure magazine’s Best Retail Space and received an AIA New York Chapter Design Award.

CLIENT: the Alessi
ARCHITECT: Asymptote Architecture
CONSULTANTS:
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Robert Silman Associates
MEP ENGINEER: Kam Chiu Associates
LIGHTING CONSULTANT: Tillotson Design Associates
CONTRACTOR: Fountainhead Construction
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Retail Interior | Derek Lam New York | SANAA

The mere thought of a high-profile architect designing a shop for a well-known fashion designer raises the old question: Will the container dominate the contained—i.e., the clothes? After all, artists often complain about new architecturally splashy museums overwhelming exhibited works. Nevertheless, fashion seems to hold its own: In his Calvin Klein store in New York City, Minimalist architect John Pawson created a hushed, monumentally Modern citadel for sculpturally austere garments where both contents and surroundings meet in perfect accord. And despite Rem Koolhaas’s rowdy romp through two levels of the Prada store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, the interior’s theatrical design-as-destination encourages curious throngs to peruse the equally provocative jolie-laide items on display.....more

Retail Interior | Surefoot New York | Los Angeles Design Group

Design Principals: Claus Benjamin Freyinger, Andrew Holder
Project Team: Noah Rubin, Jesus Aguilar, Molly Hunker
Type: Tenant Improvement
Location: New York, New York
Year: 2008
Status: Realized

Client Brief

Surefoot's design problem turns on an issue of legibility: They sell a custom fitting process that is unique to the industry, but the store is stocked with rows of intensively patterned and colored boots from immediately recognizable global brands. How can an intangible process supersede or visually insinuate itself into the slick glamour of an industrial design object? The diffusion of the custom-fitting process compounds this design problem; it occurs in a series of small episodes that are not immediately legible as having anything to do with skiing or footwear. In order to fit a boot, Surefoot uses a digital scanner to create a topographic map of the customer's foot. This map is sent to a computer-controlled mill that fabricates an orthotic insert. The process is completed by injecting rapid-hardening foam into the liner of a boot while the customer stands on a canted platform designed to simulate the position and resultant stresses of the foot and ankle against the ski boot while skiing. Uninitiated customers need a spatial system to guide them through the custom fitting process. This process is unavoidably scattered through the store but also part of a coherent whole and a recognizable brand.....more here

Retail Interior | Jewelery Shop-D Jewelery | Vaillo + Irigaray | Navarra, Spain

Project: D Jewelry
Designer: Irigaray Vaill + Vaill Antonio Daniel, Juan Huarte Irigaray
Project Director: Daniel Galar Irurre
Location: Navarra, Spain
Building Area: 30m2
Project: March 2006
Construction: December 2007
Lighting: Anton Aman - ALS LIGHTING
Prizes: First Prize. Interior FAD'08 ,First Prize. Design Award Chamber of Commerce
Photo: José Manuel Cutillas

It is intended that access to that space and the search for valuable object becomes a magical and exciting journey across the threshold of mysterious jeweler. It's not about buying jewelry ... on one hand access to a ceremony: the ritual of finding a little treasure unknown (there are resonances plays, some treatments of the dome reminiscent of the dark curtains, lighting and set designer ).
Geometry: the box is formed by twin opposing two extruded sections, the upper dark, matte, light and vibrant interior and silver, shiny, heavy and rigid.

The dark is generated by an asymmetric inverted U, which generates a way to vault a section extruded, thus forming the roof and sides (asymmetric): presents a reading of drapery-curtain mysteriously folded.

The other dihedral forms- the floor and furniture behind the counter lateral central, forming an L lying, is generated as a folded surface wear, bright and deep.
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Retail Interior | O2 Dublin Brand Experience | Ireland, Dublin | JPDA

The O2 Dublin Brand Experience, designed by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture, opened on December 16th following an €80 million redevelopment of Dublin's historic venue formerly known as the Point Theatre. The venue pampers O2 customers within fantastical themed environments including the Blue Room, Indigo Lounge, and Concierge entry experience. The spaces elevate the design of venue bars and other audience amenities to another level.
The Project included a series of hospitality spaces and customer touchpoints throughout the venue, including:

Concierge – an exclusive entry experience, featuring personalized concierge service provided to O2 customers while bathed in a celestial lighting installation.

Blue Room – a VIP Bar where O2 customers can escape the concessions queues and enjoy a drink while floating above the crowd in translucent glowing ‘bubble snugs,’ bubble-like seating booths hovering implausibly amidst the century-old stone walls.

Indigo Lounge – a top floor VVIP lounge with panoramic views of the city and docklands for special invite-only guests.
The new entertainment venue, sponsored by O2, opened to the public last month, hosting sold out audiences for Kings of Leon and Coldplay. The building, a repurposed shipping depot from the 1880’s, has been refurbished to host concerts with a capacity of 14,300 spectators. The venue is the first of its size which is custom designed for live music.
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Retail Interior | ACUBE | Aoyama, Tokyo | Issho Architects

The office occupies one floor of a building in Aoyama, Tokyo. The client handles Italian handbags and apparel, and requested a show room space in the office. The proposal was to integrate the design of the conference and show room into a multi-purpose, where deal making and exhibition can co-exist. The design of the chairs can be stacked to form a display cabinet.
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Retail Interior | CRYSTAL DENIM SAS | Paris, France | Zaha Hadid

AREA:500 m²

CONCEPT:
At the heart of the Parisian fashion district, the unique character of this concept brief produces an interesting mix of retail and industry, taking the customer through every step of the process of creating a garment, showcasing the brand’s dexterity and craft with denim fabric. Like an installation, the space is constructed with an elegant sculpture like gesture, organizing the interior and creating differentiated spaces. Its surface cuts through the façade and slabs, to allow natural light to flow down to the basement. It also contains the main stairs bringing guests to the heart of the atelier, establishing an effective connectivity between ground and basement levels. The interior walls are thickened and embedded with storage and display units. They contain the services infrastructure necessary for the operation of the industrial machinery.

Secondary back of house access is also concealed allowing staff to work around the shop in a seamless way. By consolidating natural light with key circulation, the centre piece becomes fundamental in structuring the legibility of the shop, anchoring the shop’s entrance at Rue Saint-Hyacinthe it creates a dynamic flow that is sequenced through the different components of the program. reception on the ground floor, bar and lounge in the basement, followed by tailoring and fitting, colouring, washing and drying. The ground floor on the Rue de la Sourdière side is connected only through the basement creating a space of opportunity, that can be flexibly operated as part of the atelier or as an independent gallery/event space/shop.

The façade creates a fluid transition between exterior and interior, using different levels of transparency and expressing lightness. It brings to the street a playful interaction between the sculptural contemporary interior and the historic street that can be emphasised by the selection of materials and the lighting design. The atelier is therefore a hybrid, neither shop, nor production line, it conveys an insider’s fashion experience that is polarized through a seamless architectural design, creating a niche destination that appeals to the five senses.
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