store are connected by a powder-coated red steel staircase, which houses a curtained changing room underneath.
Wood and metal stools and benches are dotted about the space, and shoes are housed in gridded metal shelves and display cubes.
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On the upper area, wooden floors contrast the steel girders that make up the underlying framework of the shop, which is exposed through the store’s glass exterior.
«This shop is situated in a part of a commercial facility composed of a series of buildings clad in the same curtain wall,» Nagasaka said. «We did not want the shop to stand out too much, nor to nestle silently in such environment.»
«Our solution was to reinforce its spatial character by adding and subtracting elements made of existing materials in the surrounding environment, without adding new elements,» he added.
Steel also features in Herzog & de Meuron’s box-like shop for fashion brand Miu Miu , in the city’s Aoyama district, while Tokujin Yoshioka installed large red aluminium triangles in Issey Miyake’s Marunouchi store.
