Comments on: The Romanticism Shop in Hangzhou, China by SAKO Architects

By: Ding Bosch

Ding Bosch — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:18:46 +0000

I love it! It may not be ‘green’ but think of all the install artists that are creating useless crap for temp exhibits that will live eternally in landfill or as a lump of concrete– nobody ever criticizes Rachel Whiteread. People just love to bitch.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:55:19 +0000

The Point is… are you going to walk past it or are you going to go in and check it out?

By: M2JL :: STUDIO

M2JL :: STUDIO — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:00:48 +0000

Amazing! It reminds me of a beehive. Very organic and very modern. Love it!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:04:21 +0000

Wow, must be nice to have an unlimited budget, and no “green” concerns for dumping that much fiberglass resin into the environment. Nice, but I imagine the fabrication of it was incredibly wasteful. If not, I’d love to hear how they pulled it off.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:18:57 +0000

Fabulous!!!

By: Ling Hua

Ling Hua — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:06:16 +0000

Zero34,

This is a flagship location. They have 500 stores. Obviously most of their stores are nothing like this. This store is an expression of their brand. Flagship locations are not meant to be mass retail where you try to fill a store with as much product as possible, they can do that in all their other stores, but this one is special.

Think of this store as a form of advertising. Instead of spending the same amount of money on ads in magazines, they go and create a special place like this that will get attention on its own because it’s remarkable.

So when you understand its true purpose, you probably won’t think it’s such a “waste of space, money and effort.” This is actually intelligent business strategy.

By: Zero34

Zero34 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:28:47 +0000

Nice, but what a shame it’s a clothing store that only has 6 items to show. A waste of space, money and effort. something this creative and well done could have been used to such a greater project then some snooty high end clothing store.

By: Michael M

Michael M — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:18:30 +0000

Love it, although it makes me think of osteoporosis.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:05:02 +0000

I guess this should appeal to girls, but it looks like fun to me, too. It’s probably not exactly what you call functional, but then again, unless you’re running a hardware store, it’s all about emotions, too!

By: gdv

gdv — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:12:05 +0000

the ultimate rococo architecture!!!!

all decoration and little function…..

By: Emily G.

Emily G. — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:12:59 +0000

I wish more stores did something as creative as this.