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Creative agency Backlash is launching Masks for Good – a social initiative that turns disposable PPE into new products, while supporting local community projects.
Shedding their teen hangout reputation, retail centres are being given an experiential upgrade as operators set their sights on affluent luxury shoppers.
With incessant news of closures, future retail developments must draw on the worldview of locals, writes Tori Tasch, senior brand strategist at FRCH Design Worldwide.
The creative director of Bikini Berlin explains why retail spaces constantly need to evolve and interact with their customers.
Stockholm – Multidisciplinary design studio Note has created a versatile Dining Theatre for the Mall of Scandinavia, Europe’s largest shopping centre.
Tokyo – Shopping centres can be stressful at the best of times and for those who need a quick cigarette, designers at Hiroyuki Ogawa have created a smoking room for the modern retail environment.
The largest shopping mall developer in the US is working with fashion and style website Refinery29 on a series of pop-up stores.
Fuzhou, China – The Wusibei Thaihot Plaza in Fuzhou, a city in eastern China, is a sparkling crystal of a building, referencing the city’s industrial past and hinting at its booming future.
Berlin – Bikini Berlin gets its name from the original 1950s design of the building, a concrete building with an open-side storey that made it look like the bare midriff of a bikini-clad woman. Now the mixed-purpose building has been renovated as a new concept mall, with locality and innovation at its core.