Shopping Architecture Now! - Reviews
| "There are shops just waiting to be shopped in. Shops with lavish chandeliers, artistic wall decorations and impressed glass facades. Now you see them together in Shopping Architecture Now!. Experience Emporio Armani store on Fifth Avenue in New York and Stella McCartney's flagship store in Paris."— Costume, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| "Einen Einblick in die glamourösesten und außergewöhnlichsten Einkaufstempel der Welt bietet der neue Führer Shopping Architecture Now!."— Berner Oberländer, Thun, Switzerland |
| "To quote the Pet Shop Boys 'Shopping we're shopping' and if you're shopping for ace coffee table books you could do a lot worse than picking this cool collection of retail rareities... Some of the world's finest architects have re-invented the shopping experience by way of designing some jaw-droppingly impressive buildings. The latest Architecture Now! tome takes us on a tour of the most inspired shops and shopping malls created in recent years. It's chock full of the types of places Barbarella or Alex De-Large would feel at right at home trying on a new plastic bra or picking out a bit of Ludwig Van. Light years away from B&M bargains, these consumerist cathedrals look more like art galleries and installations, we've come a long way since the market stall haven't we?"— Proper Magazine, London, United Kingdom |
| "This book is a glossy survey of recent retail design. Inside we see shops that look like shops and shops that don't look like shops but other things - playgrounds, art galleries, hospitals, museums. We see white on white, raw concrete, black and shiny, transparency, seamless resin and beautiful wood and textured stone. It operates as a catalogue of effects of contemporary consumer environments..."— Building Design, London, United Kingdom |
| "Hier werden die inspirierenden Traumwelten der größten Architekten-Talente weltweit vorgestellt."— Sous, München, Germany |
| "TASCHEN's latest addition to the Architecture Now! series is all about talking shop - that is, celebrating retail spaces. ... This book is full of the most recent retail spaces in the world, ranging from astonishing shopping centers by Daniel Libeskind or the young Swiss firm HHF to interactive store windows or a tiny jewel-like chocolate store in the heart of Paris. ... Apple computers, Uniqlo clothes, or Nike shoes can all be found here in a spirit of perfect harmony with the best that today's architecture and design can offer."— Selectism.com, London, United Kingdom |
| "Aus Shops werden regelrechte Konsumtempel, architektonisch anspruchsvoll gestaltet und mit den neuesten Innovationen ausgestattet. ... Shopping Architecture Now! führt durch die designtechnische Wunderwelt der Einzelhandelsgestaltung."— Re.flect, Stuttgart, Germany |
| "Now you, too, can own a piece of this magical wonderland that is the insides of very nice and expensive shops. You can touch, sniff, stroke from the comfort of your sofa, day after day. For this world has been contained within the covers of this rather fine book and if you were to lay it on the ground and stand on it, it would be almost like being in your own actual shop. Almost."— 10 Magazine, London, United Kingdom |
| "Offering urban cartography for all you global shopping experts, this publication is right up our alley... and yours! ...the 416-page Shopping Architecture Now! beautifully sums up all relevant retail design."— Superfuture.com, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| "TASCHEN's books really are a joy with great pictures and easy-to-follow text on a variety of interesting subjects - check out their store next time you're in London. This observation of retail architecture is loaded with ideas and inspirations that could filter through to homes in the next five to 10 years. It could help you create a cutting edge and individual home."— Sunday Mail, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
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