You have to be there: retail spaces that buy into experience | News | Architonic

Focusing on improving and updating the experiential nature of the square, the project used clean design elements like new street lighting, awnings and deciduous trees, and invited sculptures from the local Art School to take residence in empty shop windows. But how could the developers be certain shoppers would return? Simple. They asked them. ‘During the nine months that work lasted, the Carme Office was set up in the square,’ say unparelld’arquitectes, ‘this was the meeting point between neighbours, shopkeepers and technicians.’