All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Retail - April 2007

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  • Remploy vans: Delivering a promise.
    Features

    Retrospect

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Retail building News and products from the archive

  • Jon Emery
    Features

    Retail therapist

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Jon Emery counsels the use of cutting-edge architects for major retail developments. In an increasingly competitive market, his search for new talent continues.

  • Features

    Retail Report

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Enchant and rebuild, not new build

  • Shopping Environments
    Features

    The speed read

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Shopping Environments

  • Features

    New products

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    This month

  • Elaine Knutt
    Features

    Mixed use requires mixmasters

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Retail is dead, long live mixed use — that’s the mantra driving the current wave of retail development.

  • Neil Mitchenall
    Features

    Neil Mitchenall

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    "We're finding that famous names are learning more about retail", says the co-founder of retail estate agency Lunson Mitchenall

  • Pedestrians stroll between Panter Hudspith’s Debenhams, left, and a mixed-use pavilion.
    Building Study

    The Princess and the maze

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Developer Land Securities appointed Chapman Taylor, Panter Hudspith and Wilkinson Eyre to update a historic template at its Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter

  • Features

    Keeping up at Peter Jones

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Greek lesson: Shopping in safety

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    To the casual eye, The Mall in Athens is a conventional covered shopping centre.

  • Features

    Gold grotto

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    PRP Architects is project managing the interior design for the second London outlet of French patisserie Laudurée.

  • Features

    The numbers game

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    €5,460 is spent by the average British citizen on retail goods every year, according to research by estate agency Cushman & Wakefield.

  • The new ‘civic heart’ of Abu Dhabi.
    Features

    Fosters souk

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Abu Dhabi aims to rival Dubai as a global retail centre with this Foster & Partners’ design for the 90,000sq m Central Market.

  • Piet Hein Eek’s grey-black Marmoleum reveals ‘clouds’ of sawdust.
    Features

    Taking the floor

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Twelve Dutch designers create a Marmoleum range for Forbo

  • l-r: MENTOR - James Soane of Project Orange, ARCHITECT - David Rhodes of Open Arch, ARCHITECT - Jonathan James of Open Arch
    Features

    ‘Retail has a public face – no one sees a rear extension’

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Project Orange co-founder James Soane offers some tips to young practice Open Arch as it diversifies into retail

  • Martin Raymond
    Features

    Is Second Life rewriting the retail experience on and off the High Street?

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The writer William Gibson once said that the future has already happened, it’s just that it’s not very well distributed.

  • Flavour’s first café opened on a prime site in Brewer Street, central London.
    Building Study

    Dirty macs to organic snacks

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson King Architects finds the perfect recipe for a sandwich bar at the Flavour café in London’s SohoPhotographs: Morley von Sternberg

  • Dalzeil & Pow visualise the future fashion store.
    Features

    World Retail Congress looks forward

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    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. ...

  • Blue MDF laminate for the cupboards, right, and the solid laminate glasses display, left.
    Features

    Vision in electric blue

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Neil Hogan
    Features

    The big question

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Can the fast-moving world of retail fit-out be truly sustainable?