All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Retail - April 2007
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Features
Retail therapist
Jon Emery counsels the use of cutting-edge architects for major retail developments. In an increasingly competitive market, his search for new talent continues.
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Mixed use requires mixmasters
Retail is dead, long live mixed use — that’s the mantra driving the current wave of retail development.
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Neil Mitchenall
"We're finding that famous names are learning more about retail", says the co-founder of retail estate agency Lunson Mitchenall
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Building Study
The Princess and the maze
Developer Land Securities appointed Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre to update a historic template at its Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter
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Keeping up at Peter Jones
Three years on, John McAslan returns to see how John McAslan & Partners’ work has held up at the iconic John Lewis department store in Sloane Square, west London
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Greek lesson: Shopping in safety
To the casual eye, The Mall in Athens is a conventional covered shopping centre.
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Gold grotto
PRP Architects is project managing the interior design for the second London outlet of French patisserie Laudurée.
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The numbers game
€5,460 is spent by the average British citizen on retail goods every year, according to research by estate agency Cushman & Wakefield.
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Fosters souk
Abu Dhabi aims to rival Dubai as a global retail centre with this Foster & Partners’ design for the 90,000sq m Central Market.
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‘Retail has a public face – no one sees a rear extension’
Project Orange co-founder James Soane offers some tips to young practice Open Arch as it diversifies into retail
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Is Second Life rewriting the retail experience on and off the High Street?
The writer William Gibson once said that the future has already happened, it’s just that it’s not very well distributed.
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Building Study
Dirty macs to organic snacks
Wilkinson King Architects finds the perfect recipe for a sandwich bar at the Flavour café in London’s SohoPhotographs: Morley von Sternberg
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World Retail Congress looks forward
In retail, the only constant is change, and at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona last month, delegates heard the latest predictions on the future of retail from six international design teams. But this isn’t long-range forecasting — the designers are looking just over the horizon at 2010. ...
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Vision in electric blue
An optical illusion of sea and sky was the design concept at Michel Guillon’s Chelsea Eye Boutique & Vision Clinic. Ab Rogers returns to see if it’s still refreshing after four years