Mercabarna has opened this building for the flower market Mercabarna-Flor, an innovative market for flower, plant and accessory wholesalers. The market aims to become one of the principal markets in Catalonia and the rest of Spain, and a reference for facilities on European level.
The project of the market maintains in its exterior façade the archetypical image of traditional markets, in which the roof turns into the real protagonist, like an icon of public architecture. The roof of the new market consists of a combination of folds between the floor, the wall and the roof, dissolving those elements to create entrances, loading zones or protected areas around the entire perimeter of the building. Its analogy with a shell gives the building an organic character that is associated with the activity and movement that is happening on the inside.

This Hugo Boss store is located in the Meatpacking district, New York. It brings together four of the HUGO brands together, creating a complete look at the brand. The architects wanted a shop that “mixes together urban surfaces, the texture of art, concrete and iron and pouring everything inside to state its own naked aesthetics into the spirit of the place”.


The interior is enveloped in a diamond-shaped pattern of wooden planks; a distinctive element that Thun had already used as a cover for Boss’s headquarters in Switzerland.

mcfarlane green biggar Architecture + Design (mgb) was commissioned to design the interior for this fashion retail store.

The mandate was to develop a store design that supported the simple modern and evolving aesthetic of the brand’s fashion and offer a flexible environment for showcasing clothes, jewelry and accessories.

Built next to the highway, the building hosts a showroom dedicated to industrial products. The site happens to be on a steep slope. The architects creatively exploited this attribute that helped them to provide a greater visibility of the project to the people driving by.

Designing this elegant tower presented a particular challenge for the architects. They wanted to translate into Architecture, the image and style of one of the most recognized designers in the fashion industry.

"It is always difficult to crystallize the image of someone, particularly a person as well known as Giorgio Armani, one of the most famous figures in the world. For the Armani/Ginza Tower, it was considered essential to project not just his creativity as a designer but his special aura, recreating the atmosphere of the atelier of this Italian creative genius, as well as his aesthetic code and his personal image."