Peek & Cloppenburg Flagship Store

The department store stands on the main shopping street of a historic city centre listed as a World Heritage Site, rich in Baroque palaces, gardens and nineteenth-century boulevards. The British design team designed it to be sensitive to this protected context while asserting its own identity as a modern department store.

The façade is clad in light stone, with a grid of deep openings and large display windows that relate to the proportions of the surrounding buildings.

Inside, wide, column-light sales floors are connected by escalators beneath coffered ceilings and skylights. The photographs, taken before the store opened, show the bare spaces with their calm materials and generous daylight.