MVRDV unveils pearlescent shopping centre nearing completion in Beijing
Rotterdam studio MVRDV has revealed its design for a shopping centre with a pearlescent facade, which is on target to complete this summer in central Beijing. More
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BIG to design Galeries Lafayette flagship on Paris' Champs-Élysées
French department store chain Galeries Lafayette has selected Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to design its new flagship shop on the Champs-Élysées. More
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Call for entries to International Shopping Plaza Concept Competition
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects and students to submit projects for the International Shopping Plaza design competition, chaired by architects Daniel Libeskind and Iñaki Abalos (+ slideshow). More
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Smoking room designed by Hiroyuki Ogawa to offer clean air instead of fumes
Japanese studio Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has created a smoking room that is designed to never be smoky inside a shopping centre on the outskirts of Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
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MVRDV wins approval for Vandamme Nord shopping centre facelift in Paris
News: MVRDV has been granted planning approval to overhaul a 1970s complex in Paris, which includes adding a new facade of colourful stacked boxes to an existing shopping centre. More
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Sou Fujimoto's Palm Court retail complex completes in Miami
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto aimed to create "crystallised showers of sunlight" with the blue glass fins that front his shopping centre in the Miami Design District (+ interview + slideshow). More
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French court revokes planning permission for SANAA's La Samaritaine revival
News: an appeals court has blocked the SANAA-designed renovation of iconic former department store La Samaritaine in Paris, which includes a wavy glass facade that critics have compared to a shower curtain. More
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AIM Architecture designs "back to the future" interiors for Shanghai shopping centre
AIM Architecture has designed a lobby featuring a light tunnel and a white "gallery-style" shopping centre for a retail and office complex in Shanghai (+ slideshow). More
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Spark incorporates giant screens into faceted shopping centre facade
The folded facade of this retail complex in Fuzhou, China, by architecture firm Spark, is made from colour-changing aluminium panels and integrates giant advertising screens (+ slideshow). More
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J Mayer H designs Berlin shopping centre offering indoor skydiving and surfing
News: German studio J Mayer H has won a competition to design a shopping centre near Berlin's Alexanderplatz where shoppers will be able to indulge in skydiving or surfing. More
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UNStudio's Chinese shopping centre is covered in silver balls
Dutch firm UNStudio has completed a shopping centre in Wuhan, China, with over 42,000 shiny silver balls attached to its facade (+ slideshow). More
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Swedish shopping centre's swooping entrances "drag people inside" says architect
Movie: in this exclusive video interview from Inside Festival, Joakim Lyth of Wingårdhs explains how the Swedish architecture firm used brightly-coloured curved glass to draw customers inside its Emporia shopping centre. More
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Emporia shopping centre in Malmö by Wingårdhs
A gigantic golden chasm welcomes visitors to this shopping centre in Malmö by Swedish architects Wingårdhs (+ slideshow). More
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World's largest building opens in China
News: the largest man-made structure in the world has opened in China's Sichuan province, housing hotels, offices, a beach resort and an artificial sun. More
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The Exhibition Hall by OMA
OMA has revealed designs for a department store in Kuwait City that draws inspiration from the galleries of a traditional Arab market. More
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The Stratford Shoal by Studio Egret West
Architects and urban designers Studio Egret West have designed a shimmering wall of titanium fish to hide an ugly east-London shopping centre from Olympic visitors. More
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Beaugrenelle Shopping Mall by Agence Search
French architects Agence Search have won a competition to design a Paris shopping mall with proposals involving giant elliptical lattices. More
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Pacific Place by Thomas Heatherwick
Waves of stone ripple around the corners of a Hong Kong shopping centre that was recently renovated by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. More
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Las Arenas by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
This former bullring in Barcelona has been converted into a leisure complex by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, retaining the original facade. More
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The Souk, Abu Dhabi Central Market by Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners have completed a new shopping centre that combines high-end boutiques with independent local food and craft markets on the site of a historic city marketplace in Abu Dhabi. More
