Bottega Veneta has opened a new store at 58 Gansevoort Street in New York's Meatpacking District. The 312 square-meter interior occupies a ground-floor footprint within the low-rise fabric of the neighborhood, maintaining direct visual contact with the street through a restrained storefront and generous glazing. The plan reads as a sequence of open rooms rather than a single continuous floor. Sightlines extend from the entry toward the rear of the store, where shelving structures and freestanding furniture establish depth without enclosure.
But it had lasted that long with its thin titanium panels flitting over the ceiling and pouring down the cast-iron columns: a conceptual "tornado" dreamed up by Miyake, sketched out by Frank Gehry, and made real by Kipping, then Gehry's protegé and now a professor at Columbia. The design outlived Gehry by a week and Miyake by three years - a small miracle by today's cycles of retail turnover.
El Departamento takes over the design of Bershka's new concept in San Sebastián based on the idea of 'Uchi-Etxe,' a meeting point between Japanese domestic aesthetics (uchi) and the traditional Basque house (etxe). The project reinterprets the brand's identity through a domestic, contemporary spatial framework that aligns with the city's layered and cosmopolitan character. Located at 3 Fuenterrabia Street, the store reorganizes an existing site into a permeable retail environment defined by large windows that enhance the relationship between interior and exterior.
Plastic Box, designed by Minimal Studio, reinterprets the supermarket as a site for architectural exploration, combining minimalism with circular design principles. The building in Mallorca, , is enclosed within a monolithic shell, establishing a clear and austere framework for the retail space. The ceiling is composed of over a thousand recycled plastic crates, arranged modularly to diffuse natural and artificial light while accommodating technical infrastructure, integrating utility and structure into a cohesive architectural element. Reused materials, sculptural counters, and indirect lighting contribute to a spatial system that emphasizes material clarity, structural logic, and functional economy.