Store

TODAY’S SPECIAL is a simple, not-too-fancy store evoking a sense of everyday life but offers the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime encounter. It gives one a sense of anticipation before even going to the store,  like, “Maybe they have what I have been looking for if I go there.” And when one goes there, it makes them feel, “Maybe this is what I really wanted.” 

We designed a retail complex called “50 Norman” on Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY. It is a Japanese food-themed retail complex consisting of “HOUSE BROOKLYN,” a Japanese French restaurant, “CIBONE,” featuring Japanese ceramics and other cooking utensils, and “Okume,” a seafood processing store established in 1871 on the Tsukiji fish market.

Aesop Palisades Village takes inspiration from its natural surroundings, as well as the area’s vernacular architecture, where local buildings are delicately perched within a cascading landscape of lush ridges and valleys. Most notably, this includes celebrated local architect Ray Kappe’s own residence, a critical reference for the project.

The ZeeDog brand was born with a special purpose: connecting dogs and people. Therefor to  create the perfect Temple, only natural it would be connected to the city as well. From the street it’s already possible to experience the main building, suspended above the Zeepark and connected by a footbridge to the sidewalk.

TEA WELL is dedicated to creating innovative space experiences based on pure tea and a unique Oriental aesthetic lifestyle. Whether it’s the physical spaces or the products, they convey the founder’s passion for and exploration of contemporary Oriental aesthetics. The essence of the brand lies in the acceptance of time. RUHAUS STUDIO has taken on the design of TEA WELL’s fifth store, and synchronously reimagined and upgraded the space style to complement the updated product line. Creating spaces in the urban environment that integrate Oriental aesthetics and natural experiences requires us to trace back to the origins of traditional Chinese painting. We strive to rediscover the Eastern way of observing nature that resonates with the Eastern mindset. By bringing this approach into the lives of today’s young people, we aim to establish a harmonious connection between space and emotions and reconstruct a better Oriental world that invites exploration.

Situated in Guangzhou, a historic port city in southern China, our completed interior design project draws inspiration from the city’s maritime heritage and cultural significance. The concept takes cues from the city’s role as a trading hub and the starting point of the maritime Silk Road.

First Asia Pacific adidas flagship in Myeongdong, Seoul – Featuring the “Home of Sport” concept, adidas has opened its first Asia Pacific flagship store in the unique and bustling shopping district Myeongdong, a must-visit spot in South Korea. Various Associates, the only Chinese design firm that participated in the flagship design, partnered with adidas to extract local Korean elements and blend them with adidas brand personality, creating a “home of sport” with closer connections and deeper resonance with local customers. The store integrates into the bustling streets of Myeongdong, where diverse types of business and public activities take place. Surrounded by the cooking aroma among small stalls, this flagship creatively conveys the core value of friendliness and inclusiveness from the overarching concept of “Home of Sport”.

The desire to enhance the qualities of an already suggestive space makes this project an ambitious challenge. To achieve this, the intervention is reduced to three gestures whose conceptual load allows the space to be understood in a certain way.

 “One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. This relationship between the locus and the citizenry then becomes the city’s predominant image, both of architecture and of landscape, and as certain artifacts become part of its memory, new ones emerge.” –Aldo Rossi