(In)complete: Retail spaces as 'sites of industrial resistance'

In each issue we identify a key aesthetic trend evident in our archive of recent projects and challenge semiotics agency Axis Mundi to unpack its design codes. In Frame 137, we look at how exposed infrastructure in retail spaces is a
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