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23 June 2010 - Anyone for a haircut..?
Tuesday saw the opening of Janine Jensen, a hairdresser, in Northlands Mall Christchurch. Janine Jansen aims to provide quality hairdressing within the convenience of the mall setting.
This was the second of two recent hairdressers, with Hi-Jinks for Hair opening in Highfield Mall, Timaru, last Friday. More pics to come...
31 May 2010 - NZRIA Red Awards
Designability had a good weekend attending the Red Awards in Auckland. The Red Awards is an annual celebration of the best in retail design, run by the New Zealand Retail Interiors Association NZRIA). We managed to win two divisions this year...
Crabtree & Evelyn continued its successful fitouts, taking away the prize in the Health and Beauty Division for the new fitout in Newmarker, after winning in 2007 with the Silvia Park store. More pictures of this shop will follow in the next couple of days.
R&R Sports relocation of their store was a huge project for us last year, and took out the Sports and Recreation Division.
We're shaking things up again in Invercargill, with the construction of a daring new kiosk for Icebreaker. The joinery is underway at the moment, and should be all installed within the month. This won't be the end of our work for H&J though, as we've got a few other projects lined up in the months to come.
March saw the opening of the latest Simply New Zealand store, this time in Coastlands Mall, Wellington.
4 November 2009 - Time for an update!
It's been a while, and we've had so many stores open in the last few months!Our biggest job this year was probably the relocation of R+R Sports Outdoor Adventure store from Lichfield St to Colombo St in Christchurch. The old building had to go to make way for the new bus exchange, so R+R had to find a new one; the site they chose actually comprised of several different tenancies, previously a bike shop, a menswear shop and a hairdresser. The challenge during the concept stage was visualizing the space as one open area.
During construction, a large portal was created in the wall dividing the ground floor spaces, removing 6000 bricks to reveal the extent of the shop area!
The design of the shop had to be rugged to be suited to the adventure sports equipment that was to be sold; and also honest to the 90 year old building and it's construction. The result is a store that has the right feel for the stock it's selling, and everyone involved is happy with the finished result.
The t house at Ballantynes, which opened last Monday, is a Dilmah branded concept tea house, showcasing 26 flavoured teas from their tea time rocks collection. The menu has been specifically designed using the teas as characteristic ingredients, and are paired with teas on the menu for the complete experience. It's the first one outside of Sri Lanka, and the second in the world. We designed the interior with references and influences to colonial Sri Lanka, while creating a contemporary dining area.
Impress is a clothing store in Winton, which has just relocated into a brand new building. The new site gave Impress the opportunity to expand and enhance its shop. The shop opened in mid October with a bevy of stationary also designed by us.
Arrowtown has another exciting clothing store in the form of Te Huia. The shop sells high end New Zealand made clothing, jewelery and art. There are a few finishing touches to be happen yet, but they have been trading for a couple of weeks now.
June saw the opening of a new Sassys store at Westfield Riccarton. The move into Westfields saw a slight change of focus for Sassys, targeting a slightly younger demographic. To help achieve that, the branding was updated (by us!) before designing the new store.
Bridgeman and Dean Optometrists in Dunedin reopened in September with this updated store.
Graemes cafe has been in The Plaza, in Palmerston North, for 20 years. So with the mall upgrade came the chance for the cafe to step it up, with this new fitout, more seats and bigger kitchen.
Pics of the Kabbaba fitout are now in the projects gallery.
This update has been a while coming, it shouldn't be as long a wait for the next!
18 March 2009 - Waxx, Graemes Cafe and Kabbaba
Waxx is now in the projects gallery! Not only did we design the shop, but we did the branding as well, so go check it out!We've also had a couple of projects open in Palmerston North, as part of the mall upgrade at The Plaza. Graeme's Cafe is already a twenty year veteran, and has now opened an exciting new site. We also did the branding and fitout design for Kabbaba, an authentic turkish kebabs shop in the foodcourt. Photos are coming soon...
11 Dec 2008 - Jolly Roger, Waxx and Pumice
The last couple of months have been exciting for us, with three of our more exciting jobs of this year coming to fruition. The Jolly Roger has been trading well for a couple of months now, and we have just uploaded photos of the Victorian/pirate themed bar into the projects gallery.
Late October saw the Waxx surf store open at H & J Smith in Invercargill. There are still a couple of small touches to finish it off before we get some photos, but we've had some pretty positive feedback to the design so far.
15 Oct 2008 - Surf Store opening soon...
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The Waxx surf store at H & J Smith is due to open this Friday, all things going to plan. Things are starting to really take shape now, although there is still a bit to do, and we look forward to seeing the results. |
24 Sep 2008 - Waxx is coming...
We have been working on the Waxx surf store, that is going into H & J Smith in Invercargill, since the beginning of the year, and have been on site since the beginning of September. It's been an exciting project to work on, and incorporates some cool features we've never used before. Here's a sneak peek of how construction is going, from the empty shell at the beginning of September, through to most of the walls erected and plastered just a couple of days ago. We can't wait to see the finished product...
