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Retail Architecture : Shop Buildings
Major modern boutique developments. Contemporary Store Designs from around the World.
post updated 9 February 2026
e-architect Editors select the key examples of Retail Architecture. This online resource includes 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
Retail Architecture : Q-Z this page)
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New Shopping Projects
Contemporary Shop Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
15 September 2025
SoleWhat Shop, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Design: Empt Studio
picture © Weng Jen
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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
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Dec 17, 2016
Vondom Shop in Florida, Miami, Florida
Design: Ramón Esteve Estudio
photograph : Alfonso Calza
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9 Oct 2012
Xtra Herman Miller Shop, Singapore
Architect: P.A.C
photo from architects
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.
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6 Jul 2011
Tsvetnoy Central Market, Moscow, Russia
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
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.
Zeilgalerie, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
3deluxe in/exterior
photograph from architects
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.
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Retail Building Designs, alphabetical:
Retail Park Roermond, The Netherlands
NIO architecten
image : Arjen Schmitz
Retail Park Roermond
Selfridges Store, Manchester, northwest England
various Architects
building picture © Isabelle Lomholt
Selfridges Manchester shops
Selfridges Store, Birmingham, West Milands, central England
Future Systems Architects
photo from architects
Birmingham Bullring
Shopping Center Schönbühl, Switzerland
Holzer Kobler Architekturen
picture © HKA, photo Francisco Paco Carrascosa
Shopping Center Schönbühl
Star Place Kaohsiung, Taiwan
UNStudio
picture from UNStudio
Kaohsiung Shopping Centre design
Stefanel Hamburg, Germany
Sybarite
image : Marco Zanta
Stefanel Hamburg Store
Stefanel Store Frankfurt, Germany
Sybarite
photo : Marco Zanta
Stefanel Frankfurt Shop
Sunset Boutique, Los Angeles, California, USA
PATTERNS
image from PATTERNS
Los Angeles boutique design
Trinity Quarter Shopping Centre, Leeds, West Yorkshire, northern England, UK
EMBT + Stanley Bragg Partnership
picture from EMBT
Trinity Quarter Leeds design
United Bamboo Shop, Tokyo, Japan
Acconci Studio
photograph from Acconci Studio
Tokyo Clothes Shop
Varyap Shopping Living Center, Turkey
EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
image from architects
Varyap Shopping Living Center
Velenjak Shopping Center, Tehran, Iran
Hooman Balazadeh
photograph : Parham Taghiof
Iranian Shopping Center
Victoria Square Shopping Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
BDP
image © Christopher Hill Photographic
Victoria Square Belfast
Villa Moda Souk al-Manshar, Kuwait
Sybarite
picture : Simon Collins
Kuwait Boutique
West Gate – shopping centre, Zagreb, Croatia
ATP Architects and Engineers
photo : Shopping City Zagreb
West Gate Zagreb
westside Shopping Center, Bern, Switzerland
Studio Daniel Libeskind
picture from architects
Swiss retail architecture
More Contemporary Shop Architecture projects online soon.
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Retail Buildings Designs Archive
Modern Retail Designs – no images/links, alphabetical:
Retti candle shop, Vienna, Austria
1965
Hans Hollein Architects
Schullin Jewellery shop, Vienna, Austria
1972
Hans Hollein Architects
Selfridges Birmingham, England, UK
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Future Systems Architects
Shopping centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008
Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner
TOD, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Toyo Ito & Associates
VivoCity – shopping mall, Singapore
2007
Toyo Ito Associates
More modern Retail Designs online soon.
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Retail Designs : main page with images
interior image from J+W
Giorgio Armani Fifth Avenue
picture courtesy of Studio Fuksas
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary Retail Architecture – New Store Design page welcome.