by ouirehf wtv1 | Jul 18, 2022 | What we think
What is it about Retail Design…? Now that physical retail is on the retreat, maybe it’s time to come clean on some of the secrets of successful retail planning and design. After all, nobody is investing in retail real estate, right? Except for owners who need to...
by ouirehf wtv1 | Jul 18, 2022 | What we think
The Senses of Retail Despite the upheaval of civilisations, revolutions, tyrannies and war, the foundations of human instinct have changed little over the course of documented history and all we require of our chosen shelter is security and warmth. Even the ‘warmth’...
by ouirehf wtv1 | Jul 18, 2022 | What we think
Smoke and Mirrors In previous articles, I contended that how people interact with public space is as much to do with their subliminal, instinctive reaction as it is to the superficially visual – an ongoing conversation with the subconscious, in which the conscious...
by ouirehf wtv1 | Jul 18, 2022 | What we think
Although the origin of the modern food hall is often credited to Eataly in Torino, the emergence of food collectives in redundant US retail stock in the wake of the GFC was a greater stimulus for what is often described as democratic eating, providing venues for local...
by ouirehf wtv1 | Jul 18, 2022 | What we think
Warsaw’s Flirtation with Social Realism When the photographer Karol Szczeciński took his seminal aerial pictures of the obliterated ghetto district in central Warsaw in 1945, the city’s population, eking out an existence in a city of rubble, numbered barely more than...
by ouirehf wtv1 | Jul 18, 2022 | What we think
Twenty-five years ago, a small residential development on the eastern outskirts of Berlin was completed. The Am Landhof housing estate comprises thirteen single family homes and was remarkable not only for being an innovative ecological development, but also for the...
