Retail Buildings Designs: Store Architecture
Major modern shop developments. Contemporary store design projects from around the World.
post updated 17 September 2026
e-architect carefully choose the key examples of Retail Buildings.
Our resource covers completed Shopping Center buildings, contemporary outlet building designs and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on new retail buildings.
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Store Design – Latest Retail Projects
Modern Retail Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
September 17, 2025
Molly Moons Waterfront ice cream shop, Seattle, Washington, USA
Architecture: Graham Baba Architects
photograph : Alessandra Brescia
15 September 2025
SoleWhat Shop, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Design: Empt Studio
picture © Weng Jen
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Retail buildings interiors in 2019
25 Sep 2019
Gabriela Hearst London Store, Mayfair, west London, England
Architects: Foster + Partners
Jan 25, 2019
Apple Store, Upper East Side, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
This sensitive architectural project is an adaptive reuse of the 1922 U.S. Mortgage & Trust building designed by Henry Otis Chapman. The historic property is now home to one of Apple’s Manhattan retail stores.
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Shop design architect updates in 2018
Nov 11, 2018
Dior Shop Facade in Miami, Design District, Miami, Florida
Design: BarbaritoBancel architects
The new Dior Flagship designed by the French-Italian firm BarbaritoBancel architects in the Design District of Miami. This modern store design won the American Architecture Prize 2016.
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Shopping architecture, outlet photos in 2017
Aug 10, 2017
Apple Store in Carnegie Library Building, Washington D.C., USA
Design: Foster + Partners Architects
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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
24 Oct 2016
Stockland Green Hills Retail Hub, East Maitland, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
Design: The Buchan Group
image from architecture studio
This large new retail destination will contain a combined 69,300sqm of retail space, a 900-seat cinema complex and approximately 3,100 car parks.
16 + 14 Oct 2016
MOKO, Grand Century Place, Mong Kok, Hong Kong
Design: Aedas architects
image from architect
MOKO Shoping Centre Building
17 Feb 2016
Boodles on New Bond Street, Mayfair, West London, England, UK
Design: Eva Jiricna Architects
Completion of a new flagship store for the 200 year old heritage jewellery brand Boodles, in the heart of the Mayfair conservation area.
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6 Sep 2013
Heinemann Duty Free Shop, Frankfurt Airport, Germany
Design: Graft Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH
photo : Gebr. Heinemann
Heinemann Duty Free Shop
The dynamic tree installation, comprising layered discs of oak, rises up in the middle of the shop, catching the attention of shoppers. A leaf design for the floor is reminiscent of scattered autumn leaves.
22 Aug 2013
Hanomag U-Boat Hall Conversion – RS+Yellow Furniture Outlet, Hannover, north Germany
Design: BOLLES+WILSON
RS+Yellow Furniture Outlet
There is today an enormous potential in the re-scripting of grand industrial spaces, survivors from an epoch that had less trouble expressing itself and its mechanical or technical potency than our current mean and exploitative ‘global shopping-centre-culture’. One thinks of São Paulo’s Fábrica da Pompéia by Lina Bo Bardi, London’s Tate Bankside, or the Zollverein Coal Mine in Essen, Germany.
22 Jul 2013
John Lewis Store Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Architect: ACME
John Lewis Store Leeds
A planning application has been submitted for Victoria Gate and the John Lewis Store in Leeds. ACME has designed the three buildings comprising the first phase of Victoria Gate retail development.
16 Jul 2013
Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Design: Grimshaw
photo : Phillip Noller
Highpoint Shopping Centre
This 30,000sqm extension to the existing shopping centre building is the first retail centric project by the British architects practice since their acclaimed Sainsbury’s building in Camden, London. The architects “challenged existing retail perceptions by breaking down the traditional inward-looking approach”.
20 May 2013
Parc 66, Jinan, China – award news
Design: Benoy
Parc 66 – award news
Parc 66 has won the 2013 Best of the Best VIVA Sustainable Design and Development Award. The award was presented as part of the International Council of Shopping Centre’s global awards program at the ICSC annual RECon Conference in the USA.
29 Apr 2013
Sanya Super Market, Hainan, China
Design: NL Architects
Sanya Supermarket Hainan
The idea is now to place the main shopping volume underground. The Super Market can directly draw its customers from the large basement parking below the residential buildings.
11 Jan 2013
Cahier d’Exercices Store, Québec, Canada
Design: Saucier + Perrotte
This new boutique design is located at the entrance level of the historic Ross warehouse store. The stone façade, its cast iron columns, and an expansive brick wall that runs the length of the store recall the 19th Century building’s industrial past.
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12 Dec 2012
Boulevardi Mall, Istanbul, Turkey
Design: DP Architects
Boulevardi Mall Istanbul
“To experience the real Istanbul, one must not only visit the Byzantine mosaics and colourful bazaars, but also walk its tangled streets”. The spirit of the city’s street life is the inspiration for the architecture of these new buildings designed by DP Architects.
11 Dec 2012
Lefo Mall Shopping Centre, Suzhou, China
Architect: Broadway Malyan
Lefo Mall Shopping Centre
The 65,000 sqm design takes inspiration from the city’s canals, bridges and gardens with Suzhou known as the ‘Venice of the East’. The building is the largest retail project to be built to a design by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan in China to date.
13 Oct 2012
IFC Seoul Mall, South Korea
Design: Benoy
IFC Seoul Mall
Benoy announce the opening of their first development in Korea with the introduction of the dynamic IFC Seoul Mall. This new retail mall is part of the landmark IFC Seoul mixed use development, located in the prime business district of Yeouido.
11 Oct 2012
House of Pertijs, Breda, The Netherlands
Design: concrete architectural associates
House of Pertijs Store
‘House of Pertijs’ has its roots in a traditional family-owned watch and jewellery store where clients were treated more like friends than customers. To create more customer flow, the owner came up with a new vision: why not combine these different product groups in one store? The idea of a watch and jewellery concept store was born.
9 Oct 2012
Xtra Herman Miller Shop, Singapore
Architect: P.A.C
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.
11 Aug 2012
Hysan Place, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Interior Design: Benoy
Causeway Bay Retail Building
This new urban retail destination in the heart of Causeway Bay, has been officially opened. Benoy are delighted to have been the Interior Architects and Designers on the retail portion of this dynamic development in the heart of Hong Kong’s shopping district.
7 Jun 2012
The Mark Shopping Centre, Surfers Paradise, Australia
Architects: Buchan Group
The Mark Shopping Centre
Surfers Paradise’s retail scene is about to get a $5 million boost, with construction underway on Stage 1 of The Mark Shopping Centre refurbishment project. The project will include a new arcade linking Orchid Avenue to the Soul Surfers Paradise development, delivering the final stage of the long-awaited ‘River to Beach’ pedestrian link in Surfers Paradise.
14 May 2012
Chongqing Shopping Mall, China
Design: Aedas
Chongqing Shopping Mall
Starlight Place, the latest shopping mall designed by Aedas, officially opened its doors to its customers in Chongqing, PRC. With its unusual and dynamic angular forms, the iconic mall has become one of the few landmarks in the city since completion that is picking up speed in its development.
10 May 2012
Wintergarden Shopping Centre, Brisbane, Australia
The Buchan Group
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.
19 Apr 2012
Marni Beijing Sanlitun, China
Sybarite Architects
Marni Beijing Sanlitun
Sybarite’s design for the Marni flagship in Beijing marks a shift in the evolution of the concept, utilising strong geometry and giving familiar elements a new twist. Backlit fibreglass boxes remain a central feature but the form has been squared off and enlarged, accommodating both shelving and hanging displays.
10 Apr 2012
Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Spark
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.
4 Apr 2012
La Maison Hermès Dosan Park, Seoul, South Korea
Design: RDAI
La Maison Hermès Seoul
This building serves several functions – a café, shop, offices, a museum, an exhibition space – and articulates its different spaces by means of an initial vertical hollowing out with the creation of a central patio, and two horizontal perforations with the opening of terraces, one fully exposed to the sky and looking out to the park, the other covered and turned towards the city.
This play of solids and voids allows the natural light to penetrate by the interior of the building and gives its volumetric unity.
17 Feb 2012
Beaugrenelle Shopping Mall, Paris, France
Design: Agence Search
Beaugrenelle Shopping Centre
In today’s increasingly competitive environment, the architecture of shopping malls has come to play a fundamental role in their commercial success. Architecture can distinguish the shopping environment to create a sense of specificity, of differentiation. Space can become a brand.
10 Feb 2012
LK Jewellery Boutiques, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design: Woods Bagot
Australian Store Design
“The contemporary aim of the concept design for both the Melbourne and Sydney boutiques was to strengthen the image of this strong and cherished family brand, whilst appealing to both the existing clientele and the next generation of customers,” said Trish Turner, Associate, Woods Bagot. “Both stores work on the premise of one big open space that is surrounded by full height joinery with the exception of the centre of the store, where a series of low-height counters enable customers to weave through the space; thus creating a sense of intimacy throughout the store,” continued Trish.
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21 Sep 2011
Issey Miyake Stores, Japan
Design: MOMENT Inc.
Issey Miyake Retail Stores
The concept of 24 is a convenience store which deals in many kinds of merchandise. As a convenience store, 24 mixes all sorts of ISSEY MIYAKE brands, therefore the customers are able to enjoy various ISSEY MIYAKE goods at the same time in a casual atmosphere.
19 Jul 2011
Placebo Pharmacy, Athens, Greece
Klab Architecture / K. Labrinopoulos
Athens Pharmacy
The panels of the façade are perforated using Braille, which both alludes to the system’s use on pharmaceutical packaging and boosts visibility by allowing the light to find its way into the interior. The new facade also protects the interior while acting as a lure for passers-by.
6 Jul 2011
Tsvetnoy Central Market, Moscow, Russia
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
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
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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6 May 2009
Derek Lam Boutique, New York City, NY, USA
Design: SANAA
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 Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima among his very first customers.
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New Shopping Projects
Modern Retail Building Designs – alphabetical:
18 Kiosk, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Omer Arbel Office
Toronto Store
Alberta Ferretti Store Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Sybarite
Alberta Ferretti Store Milan
Alberta Ferretti Los Angeles, Southern California, USA
Sybarite
Alberta Ferretti Store Boutique
Almacén El Corte Department Store, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Lapeña y Torres Arquitectos
Barcelona Department Store
Ann Demeulemeester store, Seoul, Korea
Minsuk Cho, Kisu Park
Seoul shop
Arcade Boutique, Los Angeles, California, USA
Montalba Architects
Arcade Boutique
Armani Fifth Avenue shop, New York City, NY, USA
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Giorgio Armani New York
Armani/Ginza Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Armani/Ginza Tower
Bruges Retail Center, Belgium
Buro II
Bruges Retail Center
Cascade commercial center, Croatia
Design: radionica arhitekture
Cascade shopping center
Cepa Shopping Center, Turkey
Design: Oncuoglu Architecture-Planning
Cepa Shopping Center
Coolsingel Project : shopping / offices, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Design: OMA
Dot envelope – store, Slovenia
Design: Ofis Arhitekti
Ljubljana shop
ECMall – Retail Centre, Beijing, China
Design: Benoy
ECMall Beijing
Fortnum & Mason store refurbishment, west London, England, UK
Design: Jestico + Whiles
Fortnum & Mason store
Forum Kapadokya, Turkey
Design: ERA Planning, Architecture, Consulting
Forum Kapadokya Shopping Center
Galleria Hall West, Seoul, South Korea
Design: UNStudio Architects
Seoul department store
Giorgio Armani New York Store, Fifth Avenue shop, Manhattan, NY, USA
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Derek Lam New York Boutique Store, New York City, USA
Design: SANAA
Gran Terraza Lomas Verdes, México
Grupo Arquitech
Mexican Shopping Center
Hangzhou Boutique – Designer Shop, China
Keiichiro Sako, Takeshi Ishizaka / SKSK
Hangzhou Shop
Hardware shop, Ecuador
Arquitectura X
Ecuador store design
Hermès Bond Street Store, west London, England, UK
DSDHA
Hermès Store
Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen shop interior
Inside Fashion Store, Vienna, Austria
Söhne & Partner Architekten
Fashion Store Vienna
ION Orchard, Singapore
Benoy
Juwelry Mayrhofer, Linz, Austria
Design: xarchitekten
photo : Max Nirnberger
Juwelry Mayrhofer
K:fem department store, Sweden
Design: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
K:fem Store
Kanyon Shopping Center, Istanbul, western Turkey
Design: Jerde Partnership ; Tabanlýoðlu Mimarlik
Kanyon Istanbul Building
Kaufhaus Tyrol Store, Austria
Design: David Chipperfield Architects
Konoha Mall, Hashimoto, Japan
Design: The Jerde Partnership, Architects
Konoha Mall Retail Building
Liverpool ONE Shopping Centre, England, UK
Design: various architects
Liverpool One Shops
Louis Vuitton store, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Jun Aoki Architect
Louis Vuitton New York shop
Magasin du Nord, Copenhagen, Zealand, Denmark
Copenhagen Department Store
Maison Multi-brand Boutique, India
Sybarite
Maison Boutique Bengaluru
Marni Boutique Madison Avenue, USA
Sybarite
Marni Madison Avenue Shop
Marni Boutique Soho, USA
Sybarite
Marni Soho
Megaman, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sybarite
Euroshop Store
Mercat de Santa Caterina, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue
Santa Caterina Market
Micasa store / showroom, São Paulo, Brazil
Marcio Kogan
Brazilian shop design
Natick Collection, USA
Beyer Blinder Belle
American mall
Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, Scotland
Conran & Partners / Keppie Architects
Ocean Terminal shopping centre
Paseo Acoxpa, México
Grupo Arquitech
Mexican Retail Building
Pedregal Shopping Center, Mexico
Pascal Arquitectos
Mexico City Shopping Center
Peter Jones Department Store, London, England, UK
William Crabtree
Peter Jones Department Store London
Prada Epicenter New York City, NY< USA
Rem Koolhaas / OMA
Prada New York store
Prada Store, Tokyo, Japan
Herzog and de Meuron
Prada Store Tokyo
Pronovias Store, New York City, USA
GCA Arquitectos Asociados
Pronovias shop
Qatar Mall, Qatar, The Gulf, Middle East
Design: HOK
Retail Park Roermond, The Netherlands
NIO architecten
Retail Park Roermond
Selfridges Store, Manchester, northwest England
various Architects
Selfridges Manchester shops
Selfridges Store, Birmingham, West Milands, central England
Future Systems Architects
Birmingham Bullring
Shopping Center Schönbühl, Switzerland
Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Shopping Center Schönbühl
Star Place Kaohsiung, Taiwan
UNStudio
Kaohsiung Shopping Centre design
Stefanel Hamburg, Germany
Sybarite
Stefanel Hamburg Store
Stefanel Store Frankfurt, Germany
Sybarite
Stefanel Frankfurt Shop
Sunset Boutique, Los Angeles, California, USA
PATTERNS
Los Angeles boutique design
Trinity Quarter Shopping Centre, Leeds, West Yorkshire, northern England, UK
EMBT + Stanley Bragg Partnership
Trinity Quarter Leeds design
United Bamboo Shop, Tokyo, Japan
Acconci Studio
Tokyo Clothes Shop
Varyap Shopping Living Center, Turkey
EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Varyap Shopping Living Center
Velenjak Shopping Center, Tehran, Iran
Hooman Balazadeh
Iranian Shopping Center
Victoria Square Shopping Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
BDP
Victoria Square Belfast
Villa Moda Souk al-Manshar, Kuwait
Sybarite
Kuwait Boutique
West Gate – shopping centre, Zagreb, Croatia
ATP Architects and Engineers
West Gate Zagreb
westside Shopping Center, Bern, Switzerland
Studio Daniel Libeskind
Swiss retail architecture
More modern Retail Architecture Designs projects online soon.
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Retail Buildings News Archive
Contemporary Retail Designs – no store images / links, alphabetical:
Ceramic showroom, Graz, Austria
Peter Leeb / Christina Condak
Department store, Graz, Austria
1995
Szyszkowitz+Kowalski
Dior Omotesando – Dior Store, Tokyo, Japan
2003
SANAA Architects
Emporio Armani, Shanghai, China
2004
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Europe Tower, Europe Park retail development, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008-10
HPP, Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner
The Field’s Shopping Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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C. F. Møller Architects
Forma Furniture Showroom, São Paulo, Brazil
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Store, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany
1996
Jean Nouvel Architects
Longchamp Store – Soho Boutique, New York City, NY, USA
2006
Design: Heatherwick Studio
M-Preis Supermarket, Wattens, Austria
2003
Dominique Perrault Architectes
Meydan-Umraniye retail complex, Istanbul, Turkey
2007
Design: Foreign Office Architects
Peek & Cloppenburg store, Kärtner Strasse, Vienna, Austria
2007
David Chipperfield Architects
International architecture competition – winners
Prada Epicenter, Los Angeles, California, USA
2004
Design: architect Rem Koolhaas, OMA
‘Glass Worm’ building – new Peek & Cloppenburg store, Cologne, Germany
Renzo Piano Architects (RPBW)
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 Retail Designs and shopping architecture online soon.
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Architectural Designs
Giorgio Armani Fifth Avenue store, New York City, NY, USA
St James Centre Shopping Centre
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary Retail Architecture – Shop Buildings page welcome.