Retail
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Engineered timber continues to grow in popularity around the world as a sustainable building material. The latest notable work comes from Foster + Partners, which has revealed plans to build a nine-story department store in Japan mostly from timber.
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Walmart is pressing ahead with its ambitions in aerial cargo transport, announcing plans to offer a same-day drone delivery service in six US states where goods will be dropped off in as little as 30 minutes.
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Apple and Foster + Partners continue their longstanding collaboration with another Apple Store. The retail space features a bold design that takes the form of a glass-walled box that's situated on top of a large stepped pyramid-like water feature.
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MVRDV's stunning facade for Bulgari's flagship store in Shanghai is designed to look like the building has a luxurious jade finish, but the glowing green exterior actually has far humbler origins: the firm created it using recycled glass bottles.
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Apple and Foster + Partners have co-designed a new Apple Store in The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles, where customers enter through huge glass doors to a tree-lined light-filled retail space with a mirrored ceiling.
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Apple and Foster + Partners' long-term collaboration continues with a new Apple Store in Turkey. Designed to maximize daylight inside with extensive glazing, the building is topped by a thin roof that incorporates a rainwater collection system.
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Samsung started scaling The Wall back in 2018 with a modular 146-inch display. A few larger models followed, and now the company is getting down to business for the 2021 model, a monstrous 1,000-inch version aimed at commercial applications.
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Originally opening back in 1927, the Tower Theatre was Los Angeles' first movie theater to show "talkies" and even served as a filming location itself. Now, it's been given a new lease of life as an absolutely stunning Apple Store.
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Foster + Partners' latest project sees the high-profile British firm reprise its winning partnership with Apple to design a new store in Rome. It modernizes a 19th century building while taking great care to restore original artwork found inside.
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Rotterdam's MVRDV has revealed plans to tempt visitors back to an aging shopping center and music venue in the Netherlands with an ambitious renovation project centered around a large greenery filled "glass mountain."
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Apple and Foster + Partners go to a lot of effort to lend each flagship Apple Store its own identity. Few are as striking as Apple Central World though, which consists of a circular glass store centered around an intricate wooden conical structure.
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With its eye-catching glazing bulging out of a stone facade, the remarkable Galleria in Gwanggyo is one of the most striking buildings we've seen in some time. Designed by OMA, the department store was recently completed in Gwanggyo, South Korea.
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