Illy Shop by Caterina Tiazzoldi
Over 200 cubes display products by coffee brand Illy at this temporary shop in Milan. More about Illy Shop by Caterina Tiazzoldi
Over 200 cubes display products by coffee brand Illy at this temporary shop in Milan. More about Illy Shop by Caterina Tiazzoldi
The translucent back wall of this pop-up headphone shop changes colour in response to the noise made by Christmas shoppers. More about Urbanears at Boxpark by 42 Architects
Dezeen Wire: retail expert Mary Portas has published a report on the future of the high street. The review was commissioned by the British government. Read the full report here or check a summary of Portas' 28 recommendations here.
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Six architecture students have created a temporary fashion store in Budapest with a billowed canvas canopy and a sliced firewood floor. More about Nanushka Beta Store
Translucent boxes propped up on a forest of steel rods display products by skincare brand Aesop at a Hong Kong fashion store. More about Aesop at I.T Hysan One by Cheungvogl
Waves of stone ripple around the corners of a Hong Kong shopping centre that was recently renovated by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. More about Pacific Place by Thomas Heatherwick
The window frame of this Beijing boutique by Japanese studio Nendo is repeated into the depths of the store. More about Catalog by Nendo
German designers Reich und Wamser have completed a Cologne store with exposed brick walls and gauzy curtains for fashion brand Esprit. More about Esprit Lighthouse store by Reich und Wamser
If you liked the last monochrome boutique with a checkout in the changing rooms by architect Nelson Chow, here's another one. More about Shine at the Leighton Centre by Nelson Chow
Dutch designers Tjep. have completed three quirky shops and sales counters in the newly refurbished Departure Lounge 3 of Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. More about Schiphol Departure Lounge 3 by Tjep
This boutique by Japanese designers Nendo is full of fake doors. More about Indulgi by Nendo
London designers Doshi Levien have completed a Rome store for shoe brand Camper with faceted lighting clusters and a cash desk shaped like an old-fashioned television. More about Camper store in Rome by Doshi Levien
Inside 2011: Hostem by JamesPlumb has just been announced as the winner of the retail category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. More about Inside award winner: Hostem by JamesPlumb
Jars of tea and second-hand books are separated in stacked wooden cubes at a Taipei teahouse. More about smith&hsu Teahouse by Carsten Jörgensen
French studio FREAKS freearchitects have inserted a rectangular timber tunnel inside this Paris cosmetics shop. More about Heliocosm by FREAKS freearchitects
Beijing Design Week 2011: visitors were served tea at a heat-sensitive colour-changing table in a pop-up teahouse for Beijing Design Week. More about WUHAO @ The Teahouse
Architects Grimshaw have completed an installation for London department store John Lewis that's made of suspended cardboard tubes. More about John Lewis Fashion Pavilion by Grimshaw
This shopping centre by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is nearing completion in Huixquilucan, Mexico. More about Liverpool Department Store by Rojkind Arquitectos
This Hong Kong boutique has an undulating ceiling of woven cables and a checkout inside the changing rooms. More about Shine by LEAD and Nelson Chow
Polish architects Mateusz Adamczyk and Marcin Kwietowicz have inserted three gabled huts inside a Warsaw clothes store. More about Fiu Fiu Boutique by Mateusz Adamczyk and Marcin Kwietowicz