The Hundreds store opening

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Portugal's scantily dressed toilet

In the conservative Portuguese city of Sao Joao da Madeira, shoppers are in for a pleasant surprise when they go the washroom at Eighth Avenue shopping center. In the gents, you'll see women mannequins dressed in lingerie or short skirts are behind a glass wall in front of the urinals. In the ladies, half-naked men mannequins can be spotted beside the cubicles. We will be shock if we want into the washroom. Will you?

Pastries, Cakes + Flowers, Toronto

Dufflet-quince, Toronto

'S Baggers' way of serving food

'S Baggers have reinvented the Restaurant and overtaken the restaurants of the first and second dimension (i.e. service and self-service restaurants).

Experience the unique innovative restaurant - 'S" Baggers.

Unique stairs in retail store

Heatherwick Studio was invited by Longchamp to design the company's first contemporary flagship store. The studio's solution uses natural light, from a large glazed core cut through the building, to draw people up a landscape, rather than a conventional staircase or escalator, to the floor above.

McDonald's Store layout design

McDonald's on Eltham High Street, in southeast London.

Blue Frog Acoustic Lounge, Mumbai.

Bluefrog Acoustic Lounge, Mumbai. How do you collapse a theatre, restaurant, bar and club into a warehouse whilst maintaining all the performative characteristics of each individual type?

Younique health club

The 2,000-square metre Younique is a serenely theatrical two-storey health club, replete with indulgent spa treatments and, for those so inclined, vigorous gym workouts.

On the lower floor is a lava-stone sauna whose ceiling is studded with Swarovski crystals, a Turkish bath, swimming pool and a labyrinth of treatment rooms dispensing massages and Thalasso therapies.

Read more about Younique Health Club

Kurt Geiger

Kurt Geiger, London Flagship store at Regent Street. The mirrors lining the perimeter walls, with their infinite reflections, providing the spectacle that animates the simple geometry of the design.

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Surfing indoors

[video] Surfing in stores - Adrenalina The Extreme Store. How cool is that!

Japanese ice-cream parlour

The shop, designed for ice-cream-makers Ronó in Nagoya, Japan , has a stark, colourless interior that is the antithesis of a traditional Italian gelateria.

The shop is arranged around a sharp-edged, clinical white counter. The walls are uniformly tiled, with the exception of one seamless mirrored wall. “I used muted colours to enhance the colour of the ice-cream,” says Miyake. “The space brightens the ice-cream like a jewel.”

The mirrored wall creates two illusions, doubling the size of a small space and making a simple black picture frame and its contents appear to float in mid-air.

Rice to Riches

Rice pudding - Rice to Riches. According to NY Post, More conservative fans of rice pudding go for Edwards' vanilla, chocolate or raspberry, but the really adventurous are teasing their palates with pistachio, pudding infused with sage or pineapple pudding spiced with basil.

Over at NY Times, "The store's design, with its impressive glass portal (also shaped like a grain of rice) and space-agey interior of orange and white Lucite, consumed Mr. Moceo. (For months, a sign outside apologized for delays, promising ''fast food, slow construction.'')

The highlight here is "They can ship rice pudding anywhere to anyone anytime" Not forgetting their lovable packaging!

World's coolest KFC

Probably one of the coolest kfc I have ever seen. By pk arkitektar.

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Lifestyle bazzar, London

Lifestyle Bazaar brings you, decorative objects, china, glassware, lighting, art works, contemporary furniture and accessories, many from young designers from across Europe.

It is the creation of London-based design team Laurent Nurisso and Chris Curtis, who aim to bring together the latest in design trends, colours, materials, objects, furniture and accessories.

The new LONDON FLAGSHIP STORE IS NOW OPEN featuring an exciting new range of mens and womens clothing and accessories - all available to buy life bazaar online shop and instore.

Iittala store, London

Iittala Group is a leading homeware design company, and offers a wide range of products representing the best in modern Scandinavian design. The Group is the market leader on its home markets – in Finland, Sweden, and Norway – with a strong presence through brands such as Arabia, Hackman, Iittala, BodaNova, Höganäs Keramik, Rörstrand, and Høyang-Polaris

Iittala's first standalone store in the UK, 126 Regent Street, London. The backlit wall lights up a display of over 800 coloured Kartio tumblers, which changes monthly (first pic).

The store is situated at the Piccadilly end of London's Regent Street, fast becoming a design retail hub in the city.

Iittala store, London

Iittala Group is a leading homeware design company, and offers a wide range of products representing the best in modern Scandinavian design. The Group is the market leader on its home markets – in Finland, Sweden, and Norway – with a strong presence through brands such as Arabia, Hackman, Iittala, BodaNova, Höganäs Keramik, Rörstrand, and Høyang-Polaris

Iittala's first standalone store in the UK, 126 Regent Street, London. The backlit wall lights up a display of over 800 coloured Kartio tumblers, which changes monthly (first pic).

The store is situated at the Piccadilly end of London's Regent Street, fast becoming a design retail hub in the city.

Strange Fruit, Berlin

Visitors to Berlin consistently remark on the city’s distinctive fashion aesthetic. Here it’s not unusual to see a corporate businesswoman with purple streaks in her hair, or a family man pushing a stroller while wearing a rubber shirt. Strange Fruit is the visionary Berlin chic you’d see featured in ID magazine.

Designed by the architecture firm Gonzalez haase, the store makes ample use of it’s 420 square metres of cavernous space over two floors.

Strange Fruit, Berlin

Visitors to Berlin consistently remark on the city’s distinctive fashion aesthetic. Here it’s not unusual to see a corporate businesswoman with purple streaks in her hair, or a family man pushing a stroller while wearing a rubber shirt. Strange Fruit is the visionary Berlin chic you’d see featured in ID magazine.

Designed by the architecture firm Gonzalez haase, the store makes ample use of it’s 420 square metres of cavernous space over two floors.

The Brasserie, New York City

The Brasserie restaurant, Seagram Building, New York City. While the Seagram Building is the premiere 20th century glass tower, the restaurant, lodged in the stone base of the building, is entirely without glass or view. This irony prompted a series of contemplation’s about glass and vision.

The Brasserie, New York City

The Brasserie restaurant, Seagram Building, New York City. While the Seagram Building is the premiere 20th century glass tower, the restaurant, lodged in the stone base of the building, is entirely without glass or view. This irony prompted a series of contemplation’s about glass and vision.