Shops

London studio Alex Cochrane Architects has created a trio of museum shops at the recently revamped National Portrait Gallery in London. Completed as part of a wider three-year refurbishment of the Victorian Grade I-listed building by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell, the retail outlets had to be respectful and, where possible, non-intrusive. Alex Cochrane Architects worked closely with

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A three-tiered diving board stands next to a metallic palm tree inside this pop-up shop that designer Willo Perron has created for Kim Kardashian’s lingerie brand SKIMS in London. The brand’s first physical retail space in the UK, at the Selfridges department store in London, follows the same formula as its debut shop in Paris.

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Local studio EBBA Architects has designed a store for eyewear brand Cubitts that preserves and draws on the original 1930s interior of the traditional F Cooke restaurant on London’s Broadway Market. The restaurant, which sold cockney dishes such as jellied eel and pie and mash, had been located on the east London street since 1900

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