Retail Design Features
It's not all doom and gloom
I know we are all tired of hearing about the recession, but it is a topic that we cannot escape, it effects every industry, including the shopfitting industry. However, it is not necessarily all doom and gloom for all those involved here as business continues to thrive for some companies whose More...
Recession: is it a good thing for retail design?
The lights are going out all over Britain’s high streets. Not just for Woolworths, Zavvi and Adams, but several big retail brands have downed their shutters for good or been forced into painful retrenchments. The prolonged consumer boom may have provided a stay of execution for a number of tired and More...
Westfield Shopping Centre: eight months on and still going strong?
A great, white, temple of consumerism rising from the humdrum suburbs of Shepherds Bush, Westfield London opened its doors at the end of October 2008 to crowds of shoppers with a defiant two fingers at the financial crisis enveloping the UK and global economy. Conceived and built in the boom for More...
Topshop hits New York in complete style
Back to the Centre
The timing could be unfortunate. Just as worried consumers are tightening their belts, more large-scale town centre retail developments are opening for business this year than at any time in almost two decades, with 13 new schemes or major extensions in the UK. All, of course, were underway long before the More...
Shipyards to Shopping
The £300 million extension to Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries, due to be completed in 2012, is the latest step in a long journey that has seen Scotland's second city transform itself from ailing industrial metropolis to thriving services-driven economy, which began when the shipyards started to shut in the 1970s. Glasgow was More...
A Historic Challenge
There can be few places in the UK where the importance of designing a shopping scheme to adapt to the surrounding environment is more important than Bath. The West Country city, famous for its Roman baths, abbey and golden-tinged Georgian architecture, is a Unesco World Heritage site and has attracted visitors More...
Finding Paradise
In May, following a visit by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, the first phase of the 42.5-acre, £1 billion Liverpool One was opened, which saw 200,000 people return to the city centre. The biggest downtown regeneration project in Europe, Grosvenor's Liverpool One is a mixed-use scheme based around four distinct shopping More...