Messa House is a 350-square-metre retail space in Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed as a place to slow down, offering a quieter alternative to typical fast-paced retail environments. It focuses on how a person actually moves through and senses architecture, letting form, proportion, and material quietly shape the atmosphere instead of competing for attention.
dongqi Design has renovated three different buildings into a multi-functional complex that integrates retail, exhibition, F&B and office spaces in downtown Shanghai. The project consists of a three-story brick-concrete building facing the street on the south side, an 8-meter-high factory building, and a single story brick-concrete building on the north side. The ground floor of …
The design concept draws inspiration from the streaks left by stars slashing across the pre-dawn sky. These star trails represent time’s passage, each star’s arc marking a fleeting moment. Countless intertwining star trails compose the cosmic timeline. Cinema itself, an art form of time, transports the audience on a condensed journey through a lifetime or …
The interior of the Tempus store is a spatial statement about time as a personal experience and lifestyle. Here, the clock ceases to be a status symbol and turns into a set of moods: different, changing, alive. The architecture reflects this idea through a combination of heterogeneous objects — as if each zone speaks its …
As a highly developed consumer market, Taiwan has its fair share of high-end boutiques where style-savvy dwellers can splurge, even far outside the sprawling capital city Taipei. The ISSEY MIYAKE brand is well-represented in the country, operating a large number of standalone stores for many of its coveted lines. In Kaohsiung, one of the biggest …
The interior design of an Eyewear Store located in Ashiya, Hyogo, Ashiya Optical Store.
The meteoric rise of India as an economic powerhouse this past decade comes with an increasingly sophisticated and expanding consumer market and talent pool, and it’s a combo which is slowly changing the country’s leading cities on many levels, including retail and shopping. After graduating from NIFT in Delhi and Milan‘s Istituto Marangoni, Indian designer …
If eyewear in the past was consumed primarily for vision correction, today it has come to be recognized as a small fashion item that expresses one’s identity, shifting the direction of the eyewear market as a whole. Following Suwon, the second location—STREAM EYEWEAR Unjeong—breaks away from the conventional image of an “optical shop,” redefines STREAM’s …
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Old buildings always carry traces of time. Rather than erasing them, P·P·Bakery begins by accepting these traces as its premise. The project focuses on deciding what to add on top of what already exists—its structure, materials, and accumulated layers of use.
“Like water through a river” — a phrase used by SIGMA founder Michihiro Yamaki — describes the Aizu factory’s camera and lens production: continuous, precise, and tightly connected, like flowing water. Restraint and prudence come from logical thinking, while warmth reflects intention carried through time. ONOAA STUDIO sought to translate this spirit into a space …
