Raul A. Barreneche,New Retail

Phaidon Press Publishing | ISBN: 0714844993 | 2005 | PDF | 155 pages | 44 Mb

A survey of 24 of the world’s most innovative new retail stores from around the world by renowned architects such as Frank Gehry, Herzog + de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano Documents a wide variety of projects, from flagship stores for luxury brands to eclectic boutiques, department stores, shopping centres and supermarkets Each project is presented in depth with superior colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, plans and drawings, and descriptive text by a widely published architecture critic Includes projects in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Prague, S?o Paulo, Austria, Germany and The Netherlands

About the Author
Raul A. Barreneche, a New York-based editor and critic, has been writing about architecture and design for more than ten years. A former executive editor at Architecture, he writes regularly for The New York Times. He is currently a contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, Travel + Leisure, and Architectural Record, and has written for Dwell, House Beautiful, ID, ELLE Decor, Interior Design, Wallpaper, and other publications. Barreneche is co-author of House: American Houses for the New Century, and author of Tropical Modern. Author’s residence: New York, NY

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