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The main role on this highly successful project was to provide retail design coordination, working with the centre architects on a storefront strategy, then providing a manual for the criteria for tenants’ storefront and interiors design followed by reviews of each tenant design with site fit-out inspections. During the site works we were also asked to provide the design and manufacture of mall amenities such as mall carts, ATMs, information desk and external bus stops with the largest scope being for the design of the food court counter, some 60m in length in one single curve.
Our work on Arkadia led us to being invited to work on similar projects in France, Russia, Romania and Italy.

We were originally invited by the investor to provide only tenant design coordination services but once joining the design team this was soon extended to include full environmental graphics / wayfinding signage and a support role to the centre architects Chapman Taylor on the design and implementation of the centre interiors. We provided a team of architects on site for the last nine months of the project to oversee these three elements providing packages of construction drawings for the interiors and  graphics/signage elements as well as daily consultation with potential store tenants for their store designs and fit-outs.
The design of the food court was solely ours.  Sited on three floors with ten fast food outlets and six restaurants each with their own dedicated seating area to serve some 1500 customers. The full design included the fast food counter, seating areas, selection of furniture and special signage to advertise all of the food outlets.

When the most famous store in the world wished to upgrade its most successful department special care and attention was required to achieve a fitting solution. With twenty perfume houses to be sited in the White Perfumery, each with its own particular brand and style, the challenge was to find a design that brought those diverse elements together under one roof, giving a store coherence, whilst allowing for some individuality for the tenants. A prototype house was constructed and detailed discussions undertaken with each of the tenants to fine-tune the design.  Once the form and details were agreed the room was converted in three phases to allow for continuing trade.  Simon worked as site architect for Callison Architects from Seattle.

Branding, environmental graphics and way-finding in our practice is an important, complimentary element to architecture.  In our design we always try to incorporate graphics into architecture for the building to gain a strong unique identity.  Environmental graphics and way-finding also have an important function for directing people in large public buildings like hospitals and shopping centres.  Bearing that in mind we offer attractive but clear and friendly systems that can be extended and adopted for  any future needs of the user.