Sector: Retail
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Luxury lifestyle destination in Los Cabos
We are working with SOMA Real Estate and four leading luxury brands in the Ánima Village lifestyle destination, in Los Cabos, Mexico. The challenge Our clients wanted to create expressions of their brands that complemented SOMA’s visual aesthetic for Ánima Village and its concept of ‘a destination where brands, wellness, art and nature converge’. Our…
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Imanol Franco Elizburu
BD manager, Spain
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Retail and mixed-use development in India: the importance of local context
The commercial potential of a retail or mixed-use development depends on understanding its market and how people will use it. Hyphen CEO Eva Diego and Bhavna Muttreja Jain, who leads our Mumbai team, consider the local knowledge and technical expertise needed when planning these developments in India. Physical retail needs to give people reasons to…
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Five months in Mumbai: Hyphen’s team grows to 10
Five months after opening, Hyphen’s Mumbai office has grown to 10 architectural professionals. The team is now working across the wider practice while establishing a base for Hyphen’s architectural advisory work in India. Hyphen’s move into India is part of its continued development across Asia-Pacific, following its expansion into Latin America and Australia. Mumbai provides…
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Primark
Hyphen worked with Primark to transform Madrid’s historic Cine Salamanca into the brand’s second flagship store in the capital, adapting more than 3,000 sqm across five floors while respecting the character of the protected 1935 building. Originally designed by Francisco Alonso Martos, the building had previously served as a cinema, nightclub and commercial space. Its…
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Rimowa
Hyphen worked with Rimowa to transform a five-storey 19th-century building on London’s New Bond Street into a new flagship boutique, navigating significant structural, regulatory and construction challenges along the way. Dating from 1898 and located within a conservation area, the building came with a number of hidden and complex conditions, including missing foundations, structural stability…
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Selfridges
Our teams have delivered numerous projects for Selfridges including some famous retail spaces within their flagship store on Oxford Street – an iconic London landmark. Working as executive architects on Selfridges Wonder Room, we ensured that Klein Dytham architecture’s design vision was translated into reality. Inspired by the concept of Wunderkammer and Curiosity Cabinets, the…
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Bicester Village
In the last 15 years, Hyphen has helped deliver more than 40 projects for 15 global brands in Bicester Village, one of the UK’s leading retail destinations. Located on the outskirts of a historical market town in Oxfordshire, Bicester Village is the UK’s second most popular attraction for Chinese tourists – with only Buckingham Palace receiving more annual visitors. Our most recent…
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What Stage 0 entails – and why it matters
By: Eva Diego, CEO at Hyphen Understanding an existing building’s potential and constraints before design begins helps clients make informed investment decisions. At Stage 0, Hyphen’s architectural advice tests possible uses, technical requirements and commercial viability while options remain open. Across Europe, retrofit has quietly shifted from being an outlier in development strategy to its…
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The power of ‘built in’ building control expertise
By: Georgina Mullen, director at Hyphen Building control expertise within an architectural practice helps teams address compliance from the outset. Hyphen director Georgina Mullen explains how early collaboration and technical know-how can reduce the risk of costly redesign and support safe, compliant buildings. There is a phrase I’ve heard far too often in our industry:…
