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2008 Design Award Winners

Department Store

Grand Prize

Seibu Jakarta, Indonesia

Centered around an awe-inspiring, five-story, etched glass, chrome, and mirror atrium designed with cantilevered stages that showcase custom displays and visual merchandising, each of the store’s six levels are designed as distinct boutiques. Hand-cut marble patterns, textured woodwork, and use of local materials for patterned wall coverings made by local craftsmen allow for an unique realization of the design, while providing a colorful contrast to neighboring stark, structured aesthetics.Ê

Outstanding Merit

Robinsons The Gardens Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For this luxe retailer, each section within the store is designed to exude a specific character. In The Bedshop, vertical louvers control the presentation of sunlight into the store. A garden theme flows from the ground floor in bamboo-shaped poles in Ladies Handbags to star shapes formed by negative spaces in the ceiling, and from circular shapes used as “ripples in the pond” to lily pad shapes on the floor and reflected in the ceiling of Cosmetics.Ê

Outstanding Merit

Shinsegae Seoul, Korea

The open and uncrowded department floor layouts create the impression of room settings with freestanding screens giving the sense of a wall and treated as pieces of sculpture. To dramatize the central stair leading from Men’s to the first floor, a pair of sculptures featuring standing riders atop life-size horses extend halfway into a 12-ft.-high, wood-framed ceiling. Suspended artwork comprising strands of tiny acrylic forms provide dramatic lighting, and recessed lighting surrounds the rim and beams down from four concentric circles. Ê