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American Retail Buildings Designs : Architecture

Key Contemporary American shopping architectural developments: Modern United States of America built environment designs.

post updated September 6, 2025

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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
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.

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Nov 11, 2018
Dior Shop Facade in Miami, Design District, Miami, Florida
Design: BarbaritoBancel architects

photograph : Alessandra Chemollo
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.

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Aug 10, 2017
Apple Store in Carnegie Library Building, Washington D.C., USA
Design: Foster + Partners Architects

image Courtesy of architects
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.

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Dec 17, 2016
Vondom Shop in Florida, Miami, Florida
Design: Ramón Esteve Estudio

photograph : Alfonso Calza

Oct 13, 2016
Apple Store World Trade Center Oculus, New York, 185 Greenwich Street, Manhattan, NY, USA
Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects

photo : Peter Aaron
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 Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects

photo : Nick Lehoux

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American Retail Designs Archive

Major Store Designs in the USA, alphabetical:

Giorgio Armani New York Store, Fifth Avenue shop, Manhattan, NY, USA
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

photo courtesy of Studio Fuksas
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.

Derek Lam New York Boutique Store, New York City, USA
Design: SANAA

image of the Derek Lam NYC Boutique from DLM
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 Epicenter, New York City, NY
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architect / OMA

photo : Armin Linke
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
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
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.

Sep 10, 2013
Steven Alan Portland Store Design, Oregon
Design: Hollwich Kushner (HWKN)

photo : Christian Columbres
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.