Posts about Retail

Resilient Retail: Designing for Longevity

Jeff Gunning discusses how agility and creativity can help shopping centers stay on the fast track. Can shopping centers keep pace with a turbulent retail market, along with changing consumer preferences and expectations? At CallisonRTKL, we believe that it can—but only by anticipating and driving market changes. Shopping center design is about so much more […]

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Tesla: How a Super-Fly Car Can Change the World

The 2016 CallisonRTKL Design Conference took place September 19-22 in New York City. “Excelsior”—New York’s state motto, which means “ever upwards”—was the theme of this year’s event, which brought together 18 up-and-coming designers from each of the firm’s global offices for two days of professional development, team-building and design inspiration. This post is the first […]

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What Bankers Should Learn from the Telecommunications Industry

Quick!  Think of three words to describe the typical bank branch.  If your list includes words like “old,” “tired,” or “lonely,” keep reading. Now think of three words to describe your local mobile phone store.  If you came up with “energetic,” “youthful,” or “service-oriented,” definitely keep reading.   Not long ago, mobile phone stores were […]

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DATÜM: Frictionless Airport Retail

Through technological advancements, security measures at airports are becoming more streamlined, and passengers in the future will be able to arrive later, leaving them less time to shop. How can retailers successfully capture the impulse purchase inclinations of this unique audience in the quickly shrinking time before arrival and takeoff?   Influence A world of […]

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The Future of Cars is Driving the Future of Retail

CallisonRTKL’s Yogesh Seth discusses the rise of the Mall of the Future and the fall of cars. We don’t love our cars anymore—or at least, not much. Vintage cars, drive-in theaters and Americans’ unhealthy obsession with their automobiles are all fading into the background as nostalgic relics of the past. As the next generation’s desire […]

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