American Retail Buildings, Architecture, Architects, United States of America
American Retail Designs : Architecture
Key American Shopping Developments
post updated October 4, 2021
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US Retail Buildings
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of US Retail Buildings. We aim to include shop buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed US Shopping Center buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across the United States of America. The focus is on contemporary US retail buildings but information on traditional shop buildings in the USA is also welcome.
Contemporary US Retail Building Designs, chronological:
Jan 25, 2019
Apple Store Upper East Side, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
photo : Peter Aaron
Apple Store, Upper East Side, New York City
Located at Madison Avenue and 74th Street, the project is an adaptive reuse of the 1922 U.S. Mortgage & Trust building designed by Henry Otis Chapman, and is now home to one of Apple’s Manhattan retail stores.
Nov 11, 2018
Dior Shop Facade, Design District, Miami, Florida
Design: BarbaritoBancel architects
photograph : Alessandra Chemollo
Dior Shop Facade in Miami
The new Dior Flagship designed by the French-Italian firm BarbaritoBancel architects in the Design District of Miami is honoured by the American Architecture Prize 2016, an international award, which every year, rewards the best performances worldwide.
Aug 10, 2017
Apple Retail Store, Carnegie Library, Washington D.C., USA
Design: Foster + Partners Architects
image Courtesy of architects
Apple Store in Carnegie Library Building
The project will rehabilitate and modernize the Carnegie Library building to become a retail and education facility. The building will be leased jointly by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (HSW) which will continue to operate its research library, exhibit galleries, and administrative offices there, and a retail tenant which will operate a retail, events, and educational facility in the building.
Dec 17, 2016
Vondom Shop, Miami, Florida
Design: Ramón Esteve Estudio
photograph : Alfonso Calza
Vondom Shop in Florida
Oct 14 + 13, 2016
Apple Store World Trade Center Oculus, 185 Greenwich Street, Manhattan, NY, USA
Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects
photo : Peter Aaron
Apple Store World Trade Center Oculus, New York
Apple’s newest Manhattan retail store, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, opened last month in the recently completed World Trade Center Oculus. Prominently positioned in the epicenter of the bustling transportation hub, the new store is the only space to inhabit two levels and a full quarter of the light-filled structure.
Sep 20, 2016
Williamsburg Apple Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects
photo : Nick Lehoux
Williamsburg Apple Store Brooklyn, New York
Major Store Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
Armani Fifth Avenue shop, USA
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
photo courtesy of Studio Fuksas
Giorgio Armani New York
After Hong Kong Chater House and Tokyo Ginza Tower, Fifth Avenue completes the trilogy of the Armani Stores designed by Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas for the famous designer. Situated in the centre of New York, in one of the street more known, the project takes up the first three floors of two buildings localized between the 5th Avenue and the 56th Street. Besides the basement, the show room develops on four differents levels and it’s conceived of an only space, without clear distinctions, a singing space connected with the power generated by the whirlwind of the staircase.
Derek Lam Boutique, New York City, USA
Design: SANAA
image of the Derek Lam NYC Boutique from DLM
Derek Lam New York Store
Derek Lam International’s first stand-alone boutique, designed by internationally esteemed architects SANAA. “I am thrilled to work with architects who share my design philosophy and whose work I so greatly admire,” said Derek Lam, who counts Kazuyo Sejima among his very first customers. “SANAA has created a retail environment that is minimalist, functional, intimate and warm. The store concept will be an important step towards solidifying the identity of the brand.”
Prada Store New York, New York City
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architect / OMA
photo : Armin Linke
Prada Epicenter
The stores are conceived as specific insertions both in relation to the brand and the network of existing ‘green’ Prada stores, as well as the city and cultural context they are situated in. In contrast to the concept of a classical ‘flagship store’ – the simple enlargement of a generic store, in other words more of the same – the new Prada ‘epicenters’ offer a diversification of the shopping experience: the commercial function is overlaid with a series of experiential and spatial typologies.
Sunset Boutique, Los Angeles, California
Design: PATTERNS
image from architect
Sunset Boutique
The spatial performance of the store is based on the bending effect of two reciprocally ruled surfaces: the façade that bends inside up and the pliant stair that bends outside down, create a magnetic field that gravitates towards the interior. The bent façade operates as a responsive skin that by means of local inflections senses the dynamics of pedestrian activity on the sidewalk and nearby strip.
Arcade Boutique, Hollywood Building, Los Angeles, California
Design: Montalba Architects
image from CC Sullivan
Arcade Boutique
High-end, exclusive fashion meets retail in a carefully curated shop designed by David Montalba. By bringing much-needed light and a sensuous material qualities to the new store, Montalba reflects the retailer’s vision and supports her unique business approach.
Steven Alan Portland, Oregon
Design: Hollwich Kushner (HWKN)
photo : Christian Columbres
Steven Alan Portland Store Design – Sep 10, 2013
Designed by Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) as a prototype for future Steven Alan locations in Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas, the Portland store imbues a local character to a modular design. Building on his reputation for scouting the most intriguing young designers, Steven Alan turned to Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) to envision a national expansion beyond the 20 existing retail locations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Connecticut.
Shop Designs in USA
Shop Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
Alberta Ferretti Los Angeles, California
Architect: Sybarite
photograph : Jimmy Cohrssen
Alberta Ferretti Los Angeles Boutique
Louis Vuitton store facade, New York City
Jun Aoki Architect
photo : Andrew McRae
New York store
Marni Boutique Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Architect: Sybarite
photo : Donato Sardello
Marni Las Vegas at The Crystals
Marni Boutique Madison Avenue, New York
Architect: Sybarite
photo : Paul Warchol
Marni Madison Avenue
Marni Boutique Miami, Florida
Architect: Sybarite
photo : Bill Wisser
Marni Miami Boutique
Marni Boutique Soho, New York City
Architect: Sybarite
photo : Paul Warchol
Marni Soho
Natick Collection, Massachusetts
Beyer Blinder Belle
photo : Chuck Choi
Natick Collection
Pronovias Store, New York City
GCA Arquitectos Asociados
picture : Wade Zimmerman Photographer
Pronovias Store
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US Shop Designs
Key American Retail Buildings, no images:
Apple SoHo, New York City
2002
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Ronnette Riley Architect
Apple Store Fifth Avenue, New York City
2006
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
GIADA Shop, New York City
1987
Design: Steven Holl Architects
Hoffman Auto Showroom – now Mercedes-Benz Showroom Manhattan
430 Park Avenue (at 56th Street), New York
1954
Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
La Maison Unique, Longchamps store, Soho, Manhattan
2007
Heatherwick Studio
Prada Epicenter, Beverley Hills, Los Angeles, California
2007
Rem Koolhaas Architect / OMA
V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, California
1948
Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings / photos for the American Retail Architecture page welcome