All Features articles – Page 221
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FeaturesMixed 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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FeaturesNeil 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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FeaturesKeeping 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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FeaturesGreek 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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FeaturesFosters 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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Features‘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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FeaturesIs 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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FeaturesWorld 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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FeaturesVision 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
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Bejewelled
Diamond jewellery dealer Leviev is taking the Wells Mackereth interior design concept of its Old Bond Street store to Moscow, New York and Palm Beach.
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FeaturesFAT’s bakery for Peyton & Byrne is good enough to eat
“The whole thing is like being submerged in fondant,” says Charles Holland of FAT, the architect of this baker’s shop for restaurateur Oliver Peyton.
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Features‘We believe offsetting is not about planting trees’
Mark Clemson, business development manager, Corus Colors