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Retail

Masks for Good positively upcycles PPE waste

Creative agency Backlash is launching Masks for Good – a social initiative that turns disposable PPE into new products, while supporting local community projects.

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Luxury

Experiential luxury malls

Shedding their teen hangout reputation, retail centres are being given an experiential upgrade as operators set their sights on affluent luxury shoppers.

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Marketing & Branding

Why community is critical to the future of malls

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.

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Retail

Nicole Srock Stanley: Curating a destination

The creative director of Bikini Berlin explains why retail spaces constantly need to evolve and interact with their customers.

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Food & Drink

Worth noting

Stockholm – Multidisciplinary design studio Note has created a versatile Dining Theatre for the Mall of Scandinavia, Europe’s largest shopping centre.

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Retail

The smoking room

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.

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Retail

Shopping mall pairs with website on one-day pop-up shop

The largest shopping mall developer in the US is working with fashion and style website Refinery29 on a series of pop-up stores.

Wusibei Thaihot Plaza by Spark
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Retail

Diamond in the rough: Futuristic mall lands in China

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.

Bikini Berlin
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Retail

Mall rats: Berlin’s new concept-driven shopping centre

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.