All Design Challenge articles
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InsightThe great design challenge: Farrells
With a strong focus on energy sustainability and circularity, the reimagined Queensmere shopping mall incorporates a combination of natural and artificial components for the community of Slough.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Fathom
The Urban Fellowship concept embraces intergenerational living and prioritises sustainability, wellbeing, shared activities and long-term community relationships.
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InsightThe great design challenge: MoreySmith
Sensorium reimagines the shopping centre as a place to reconnect with body, mind and earth. The concept is designed to allow visitors to take time, enjoy new experiences and reconnect with nature.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Sheppard Robson
Sheppard Robson’s reinvigorated centre features a mix of retail, F&B, workspace and leisure and is designed to be the social glue that brings the community together.
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InsightThe great design challenge: MAWD
The Experience Driven High Street vision incorporates renewed leisure, residential and office space alongside boutique retail and hospitality, creating a place where people want to live, work and visit.
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InsightThe great design challenge: centre forward
Property Week set nine architects and design experts the task of reimagining a tired shopping centre in a secondary location.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Benoy
Benoy’s vision is to reconnect the shopping centre with the surrounding community. Thinking beyond retail, it has transformed the space into a green, flexible and engaging place designed to suit everyone.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Chris Dyson Architects
Eschewing the current trajectory towards an all-digital shopping experience, CDA repurposes a brutalist gem and embraces the skills of independent small traders.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Bell Phillips Architects
Recognising the importance of open, green space in our towns and cities, BPA proposes transforming redundant shopping centres into rewilded gardens of remembrance.
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InsightThe great design challenge: AFK
The acceleration of online shopping and new ways of working have led AFK to reimagine the mall as a ‘one-size-fits-all’ workplace incorporating quiet areas for concentration and space for collaboration.
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InsightThe great design challenge: the department store reborn
Property Week set eight of the UK’s leading architectural practices the challenge of reinvigorating a redundant department store building.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Hawkins\Brown
‘Low Impact Fashion Enterprise’ concept reimagines department stores as sustainable hubs of ethical fashion that can foster mindful consumption and community projects.
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InsightThe great design challenge: HOK
HOK envisages the creation of a civic hub with a central atrium designed to meet community needs.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Jestico + Whiles
‘Learning store’ concept transforms department stores into sites of education by turning knowledge into a commodity and offering classes in everything from cookery to farming.
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InsightThe great design challenge: TP Bennett
‘Agora’ concept repurposes department stores as multifunctional spaces that will bring back non-retail services to town centres and renew togetherness in post-Covid world.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Orms & Beispiel
‘Northampton Exchange’ concept turns store into experiential community hub with focus on crafts.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Barr Gazetas
‘Department of Health’ concept turns stores into experiential destinations to provide public spaces where people can participate in craft-based activities and boost wellbeing.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Arney Fender Katsalidis
‘Busy space’ concept transforms Topshop’s Oxford Street store into a hub with a mix of retail, leisure and residential uses, along with elevated walkways and transport links.
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InsightThe great design challenge: Fathom Architects
’Department of Digital Futures’ concept centres on tech hub that can serve complex local needs.
