However, the most significant of Burberry’s achievements over the last year was the expansion of its retail network, with some existing stores being refurbished and nine mainline stores opened. Earlier in the year, the brand inaugurated a new flagship store in China (located in Shanghai’s Kerry Centre), and reopened its flagship store in San Francisco (in a four-floor historic townhouse on Post Street). More recently, Burberry reopened an expanded two-floor store in Munich, unveiled its biggest store to date in Japan (occupying four floors of a building in Omotesando, Tokyo), and opened a new flagship store in Los Angeles.

To mark the opening of the Los Angeles store (set on the corner of Rodeo Drive and Dayton Way in Beverly Hills), Burberry’s design director Christopher Bailey unveiled the Burberry Rodeo Drive Walk of Style plaque, which commemorates the contribution the brand has made to the fashion industry and its connection with Los Angeles’ entertainment community.

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Occupying 15,000 square meters distributed across 15 floors, the building provides new studios, laboratories and workshops, exhibition areas, multi-functional classrooms, a lecture theatre and a communal lounge to over 1,800 students and staff of the school’s disciplines of Industrial & Products Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, Digital Design and Environmental Design.

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In addition to the ready-to-wear collections and its full range of accessories (including handbags, watches, jewellery and eyewear), the flagship will house two new concepts for the brand: a dedicated men’s accessory section and a women’s shoe salon carrying both the Michael Kors Collection and Michael Michael Kors shoe line.

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The project will comprise two 65-story towers with apartments and common areas designed by the Armani/Casa Interior Design Studio, the division also responsible for other Armani residential ventures such as the Maçka Residences in Istanbul, The World Towers in Mumbai and the Century Spire in Manila.

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The project will comprise eight buildings (including two 180-metre towers) and combines offices, a hotel, a cultural centre, retail spaces and a large public plaza. Occupying a prominent site on the Bund, the development is part of a masterplan conceived as a point of connection between the old town, the Bund and Shanghai’s new financial district.

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The design of the store mirrors the one used in the recently inaugurated Shanghai store and is centred around the idea of a clean, white box punctuated with noble materials such as Italian white Carrara marble, black Nero Marquina marble and polished bronze. To establish a contrast with these heavy materials and provide a feeling of lightness and transparency, hanging glass unites and floating shelves are used throughout the interiors.
Alexander Wang currently operates 5 shop-in-shops in Japan. The opening of the freestanding store in Aoyama brings the number of the brand’s international stores to 16, while the Alexander Wang e-Commerce site ships to more than 50 countries.

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The winning project, which will be located on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour as part of a planned 14-hectare park, was selected by an international jury from a shortlist that included proposals by SANAA, Renzo Piano, Toyo Ito, Snøhetta and Shigeru Ban.

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Coop Himmelb(l)au won the competition to design the Dalian International Conference Centre in 2008. Construction began later in 2012 and involved the help of shipbuilders, who were brought in to bend the massive steel plates of the outer shell. The building, conceived as a landmark for the developing district outside the densely populated centre, intends to be a major architectural gesture in the burgeoning area, which will include a cruise terminal and cultural complex in the future.

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