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Shopfront: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Shopfront design encompasses the architectural and spatial strategies that define retail and commercial spaces at street level. These projects explore how storefronts function as both functional retail environments and urban design interventions that shape public perception and pedestrian experience.

The community examines diverse approaches to shopfront design, from transforming existing structures like bike shops and factories into branded retail experiences, to creating modular and adaptable commercial facades. Projects range from sensory-focused retail environments and flagship stores to showrooms that prioritize material expression and spatial flexibility.

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Simulation

VR headsets Storefront design competition

Prize Pool:USD 7,000

Regular registration ends: January 30, 2027

Submission ends: January 31, 2027

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Inderpreet and 2 others

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Resilient CP- 2.0

The Resilient CP 2.0 will act as a prototype, transforming the city, the country and eventually galvanizing the whole world. New CP, is superior and resilient, drives a stiring insurgent present situation, throughout the world. Providing open spaces, keeping humanity and culture alive; furnishing street with lively activities, social life and health.

Nilay

Redefining the Urban Fabric of Manek Chowk,Ahmedabad

The project aims to design & solve built forms and public open spaces addressing typologies of housing and shops in high-density areas of Indian markets situated in an urban context evolved over the years. It retains the heritage aspect by resolving streetscape, elevated housing units, shop typologies and the addition of library, museum & exhibition spaces.

Nicodesign and Anais

SIANA - Farm to City

In this project, we created a space where farmers can bring local goods and sell them to customers directly while fostering a friendly community through a modular system. The market sells various products including fruits and vegetables, meat, wine, cheese, baked goods, and a selection of jams.

reza and 2 others

The Final Touch

The Final Touch an ecosystem of memories, oasis for the customer. A place to reconnect with nature and a place to reconnect to the loved ones.

Hernan and 2 others

Social Q

Social Q is a modern food cart, that creates multiple modular design opportunities, using simple materials and easily transportable.

beyzanur

farModular

FarModular blends traditional market culture with modern functionality, offering a sustainable, flexible, and user-centered space through modular structures. It transforms shopping into a social and enjoyable activity while greenhouses invite public engagement in agriculture, enhancing the visual and ecological richness.

Jingjing and 5 others

CITY SHOWROOM

City showroom uses interactive digital facade to activate the commercial vitality of Milan fashion industry. We create a changeable adaptive façade with LED screens to display narrative stories and rich advertising images, so that people can feel the development of Milan's fashion culture and activate the vitality of the region.

Gracia

Shanghai Street Imagined

In the middle of the busy Mong Kok area sits a cluster of newly revitalized Hong Kong tenement buildings from the 1920s. Our team explores this site on how a small-scaled parasitic architecture affects the appearance and program of a large-scaled building while maintaing its original features.

Chris and Danielle

Village Coffee

A modern take on the traditional Coffee House comprised of multiple "houses". Each house gives a sense of home, as it invites diverse customers to enjoy a cup of coffee.

Islam and 2 others

Upcycling Retail

The retail is an assembly of modular structure system, contains prefabricated units guided by main and secondary paths. The structure adapts for changing functions in the future. The units are designed to embrace different activities. Technological interventions are added to the physical store, to make interesting experience in the abundant site of Dixie.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 weeks ago

Sò Studio Turns a 38 m² Back-of-House Block in Qinhuangdao into a Corner Concept Store

In a Qinhuangdao residential square, a former service building becomes a 38 m² retail room anchored by a stone column, timber frames and a steel canopy.

Commercial Buildings

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 weeks ago

MARCOZERO Studio Turns a 35 m² Ground Floor in a 1950s Brazilian Building into a Street-Facing Flower Shop

A compact florist in Brazil strips a 1950s ground floor back to 4 m, lets louvered glass and vines blur the shopfront, and keeps the flowers in charge.

Interior Design

Commercial Buildings

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 weeks ago