Retail Gets No Respect, I Tell Ya

Retail design gets no respect. But despite the design world's presumptions about it, retail architecture is indeed relevant to time, place, and culture. Here are ways MulvannyG2 and others have done new things new ways to lend more respect to the Rodney Dangerfield of our industry.

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Rethink Architecture: Delightful Ways Technology is Changing Architecture

What other ways is technology changing how we engage with the built environment?

At Millennium Park's Crown Fountain, you can make a 50-foot tall video of someone's head "spit" at you by pushing a button for a large squirt of water. It's a new, interactive take on what gargoyles have done for centuries. And in New York, journalists can operate window louvers to control daylight and heat at The New York Times Building. Then, the building calibrates mechanical systems accordingly and records the changes. The records provide information to tweak that building's performance and inspire future building design. These two examples are also fun ways for users to control their comfort and impact the built environment. Have you seen other examples of how technology is making our every day experience with architecture more fun or meaningful?

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Rethink Architecture: Psst…Chinese Retailers Want to Ask You Something

What Would You Say to Chinese Retailers to Help? Right now Chinese retailers need to address both market and operational changes as retail development continues to expand rapidly. What's been your experience meeting these challenges, in Asia or the U.S.? Tell us what you think!

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Learning from Repeatability

We've reframed a core expertise to meet clients' current challenges in a different market. How have you co-opted an idea, a perspective, or an approach? What do you think about this in general? Let's talk about it!

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Rethink Architecture: Dancing with our Clients to Make Better Design Decisions

Have you "danced" to make decisions with others?

Tell us how you've managed a relationship to make a product or a process better!

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Here's another idea!

Test market opportunity. What if these components were considered as a means to introduce a brand new market, to test the water? It offers a lower threshold of risk: Instead of creating an 180,000-square-foot store and experimenting with that, first establish a component in a new market and tweak from there.

Now, let's hear your ideas -- join the conversation!

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Rwanda Rising, One School and One Girl at a Time

Have you contributed to projects that have helped the human condition, in ways great and small?

Share with us your own stories of using architecture and development to advance a cause.

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Are you going 'Country?'

Have you used simple, down-to-earth but highly effective methods that have made a difference to architecture, design or development? If so, what?

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What Can Architects Do to Spur Development in this Economy?

Instead of asking, “What can I design?” architects and other consultants in this industry should ask, “What can I do to help developers?” Let’s add to our value proposition to reduce developers’ and tenants’ risk by getting more resourceful.

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