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Retail Architecture : Shop Buildings

Major Retail Developments + Store Designs from around the World.

post updated 5 September 2024

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Retail Architecture. We aim to include shop buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed Shopping Center buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary retail buildings but information on traditional shop buildings is also welcome.

Shop Architecture

Retail Buildings : A-B

Retail Building Designs : C-I

Shop Buildings : J-L

Store Designs : M-P

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New Shopping Projects – Selection

Shop Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

9 Oct 2012
Xtra Herman Miller Shop, Singapore
Architect: P.A.C

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Xtra Herman Miller Shop
Learning from the design processes of the work chairs, which combines formal, structural and material innovation based on the research of Ergonomics to create a surface that moulds comfortably to the human body, our proposal seek to develop a “skin” for the Herman Miller Store that is “moulded” to its host – Xtra. Four central ideas guide our design process. Shop-In-Shop: The Herman Miller store is expressed as a porous plywood envelope forming an independent entity that plugs into the shop space of Xtra. This lightweight envelope allows visual links yet maintains the identity of both stores.

10 May 2012
Wintergarden Shopping Centre, Brisbane, Australia
The Buchan Group

image : Christopher Frederick Jones
Wintergarden Shopping Centre
Wintergarden opened its doors this month, unveiling its new design to Brisbane shoppers and showcasing some of The Buchan Group’s most innovative retail work. After a four year redesign and redevelopment the landmark shopping destination has again started welcoming shoppers.

10 Apr 2012
Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Spark

photo : Lin Ho
Malaysian Retail Building
Starhill Gallery is perhaps Kuala Lumpur’s most iconic shopping mall, featuring an extraordinary array of luxury shops and fine dining restaurants. Spark’s design proposal dealt with the reinvention of the existing façade of Starhill Gallery facing Bukit Bintang. This reinvention of Starhill Gallery is designed by Stephen Pimbley, founding director of Spark and the architect behind Singapore’s hugely popular Clarke Quay.

6 Jul 2011
Tsvetnoy Central Market, Moscow

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

Tsvetnoy Moscow Store - Retail Architecture

photograph : Chris Gascoigne
Tsvetnoy Central Market
Visible from the ground floor entrance of the department store through a large full-height atrium, the ceiling provides visitors with a glimpse of the colourful produce and activities within the 7m high food hall above. Sitting inside the external envelope, the reflective surfaces wrap and unify the two food retail floors, creating movement through abstract shifting patterns of colour, which make reference to the site‘s history as a flower marketplace as well as the architectural innovation and geometry of the new building, designed by Moscow-based architectural studio Project Meganom.

Zeilgalerie, Frankfurt, Germany
3deluxe in/exterior

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Zeilgalerie shopping centre
The redesign of the Zeilgalerie shopping centre, which opened in 1992 and is renowned far beyond Frankfurt’s city limits, includes a completely new look for the façade and a full makeover of the public areas inside the complex. Due to the paramount significance of the front of the building in terms of typology and how it fits into the urban setting, 3deluxe’s design concept focuses closely on the architectural surface and its deepening in content, structure and materials.

Retail Building Designs, alphabetical:

Retail Park Roermond, The Netherlands
NIO architecten

image : Arjen Schmitz
Retail Park Roermond

Selfridges Store, England
various Architects

building picture © Isabelle Lomholt
Selfridges Manchester shopsSelfridges Store, England
Future Systems Architects

photo from architects
Birmingham BullringShopping Center Schönbühl, Switzerland
Holzer Kobler Architekturen

picture © HKA, photo Francisco Paco Carrascosa
Shopping Center SchönbühlStar Place Kaohsiung, Taiwan
UNStudio

picture from UNStudio
Kaohsiung Shopping Centre designStefanel Hamburg, Germany
Sybarite

image : Marco Zanta
Stefanel Hamburg StoreStefanel Store – Frankfurt, Germany
Sybarite

photo : Marco Zanta
Stefanel Frankfurt ShopSunset Boutique, USA
PATTERNS

image from PATTERNS
Los Angeles boutique designTrinity Quarter Shopping Centre, England
EMBT + Stanley Bragg Partnership

picture from EMBT
Trinity Quarter Leeds designUnited Bamboo Shop, Japan
Acconci Studio

photograph from Acconci Studio
Tokyo Clothes ShopVaryap Shopping Living Center, Turkey
EAA-Emre Arolat Architects

image from architects
Varyap Shopping Living CenterVelenjak Shopping Center, Tehran, Iran
Hooman Balazadeh

photograph : Parham Taghiof
Iranian Shopping CenterVictoria Square Shopping Centre, N.Ireland
BDP

image © Christopher Hill Photographic
Victoria Square BelfastVilla Moda Souk al-Manshar, Kuwait
Sybarite

picture : Simon Collins
Kuwait BoutiqueWest Gate – shopping centre, Croatia
ATP Architects and Engineers

photo : Shopping City Zagreb
West Gate Zagrebwestside Shopping Center, Switzerland
Studio Daniel Libeskind

picture from architects
Swiss retail architecture