#retail-architecture

#retail-architecture

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.

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.