Standard, a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary architecture and design practice, has completed this retail project, the flagship store for online couture retailer REVOLVE Clothing (REVOLVE).

The new storefront, which is REVOLVE’s first-ever brick-and-mortar retail space, is conceived as a high-fashion gallery that also serves as a flexible space and a destination for art, fashion and creative events.

“For REVOLVE’s retail debut, our design needed to fulfill our clients requirements both from functional and a symbolic standpoint,” said Silvia Kuhle, Standard Partner. “As a young company making a significant jump to the next phase of its development, REVOLVE needed a space that would comfortably showcase their constantly changing selection of couture brands while also embodying their rise from virtual world retailer to real world fashion destination.”

All photographs by Benny Chan

The project is an advertising  agency situated in the ‘Jardins’, a São Paulo neighborhood that is undergoing radical change, on an avenue of intense traffic. Facing north, it appears as an organic incarnation of the urban and natural “aggressions” suffered by the tropical city.




The noise, the insulation and the intense traffic are building components that get infused in this project. Rather than isolating itself from the noise and movement surrounding it, it absorbs the neighboring energy, and uses it to define its identity, sending the energy back as in a boomerang effect.

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.