dear designboom reader,

from the get-go, retail designs stun visitors with their thoroughly assembled arrangements.

tokujin yoshioka plants aluminum panels along the minimalist, all-white interior of the new issey miyake store in tokyo to create a more intimate relationship between the clothes and the clients. la nena cafe in dubai infuses natural textures and earth tones underscored by the warm lighting inside its cavern-like space to immerse visitors in a laidback coffee break.

in düsseldorf, santiago calatrava plans to enclose a curving glass roof around expressive and luminous vaulting for his retail and office complex ‘calatrava boulevard’ to offer visitors a sense of expanded open space. OMA imagines the harajuku quest mall with waterfall-like stairs to fall in line with the glass-clad protruding cube that views the city skyline.

thanks for reading!

matthew burgos | editor