Category Archives: Retail Design

A Rare Beast

A ware­house and show­room that shows a light archi­tec­tural touch, with meas­ured con­trasts between solid­ity and light­ness and func­tion and fin­esse. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. Ware­houses, as their des­ig­na­tion obvi­ously denotes, are gen­er­ally exer­cises in func­tion­al­ity, places where pur­pose wins out over pos­sib­il­ity. It has to be said, there [...]
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Retail Design Award Highlights

He might not have won the Supreme Award at the Red Awards – that hon­our went to Christchurch's Redesign Interior Archi­tec­ture for the res­taur­ant Poppy Thai – but Mark Gascoigne was cer­tainly the big win­ner at the retail design awards, pick­ing up eight awards (out of 18 on offer).
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