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Store of Value

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JURY VOTES
Single-Brand Store
4.45
4.45
4.09
3.91
4.23
Frank Lee
Frank Lee Founder and President at Shanghai Fengyuzhu Culture Technology
9
9
9
8
8.75
Simon Goff
Simon Goff Founder and Director at Floor_Story
7
7
6
5
6.25
Ting Yu
Ting Yu Chief Architect at Wutopia Lab
6
4
5
5
5
Nathan Watts
Nathan Watts Creative Director at Interstore
Not real...
1
1
1
1
1
Nic Granleese
Nic Granleese CEO and Cofounder at BowerBird
5
5
5
5
5
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy Founder, Design Principal at Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]
6
7
6
6
6.25
Janne van Berlo
Janne van Berlo Founder at Atelier van Berlo
5
5
3
3
4
Jeff Yrazabal
Jeff Yrazabal President at SRG Partnership
Renderings?...
4
4
4
4
4
Tobias Geisler
Tobias Geisler Cofounder at VAVE Studio
missing the idea of reflecting phys...
2
2
2
2
2
Julio Kowalenko
Julio Kowalenko Cofounder at Atelier Caracas
1
1
1
1
1
Akanksha Deo Sharma
Akanksha Deo Sharma Designer at Ikea
3
4
3
3
3.25
Client
Garro
Floor area
56 ㎡
Completion
2021
Design
Snezana Stanic
Design Director
Guillermo Blanco
3D
Spark

First Flagship store for investment in Gold and Bitcoin in Madrid, Spain. Narrative: Gold Rush, Gold: Strong, pure, graceful, solid, precious metal, massive, real, bright, true, shining, powerful, minted, lordly, glittering, dazzling, … all that in this piece of precious metal. Concept: Finding inspiration and esthetics in raw gold form, as its primal form. All is nonpermanent, while gold was always mesmerizing people for its everlasting shine and never rusting color. The 56 square meter venue is located in the Golden mile of Madrid , Calle Velazquez surrounded by 19-20th century classic buildings. The space is divided in 2 floors. In the ground floor find the waiting area with sofas with a very elegant look evoking a Manhattan bank in the 1920’s. When we go down, we find the vault in the basement where are we are attended privately in a mystery room, very dark that reminds us a Mission Impossible film. The challenge of the Design was to make a Modern minimal design but not losing that Elegancy touch that have the Art Deco banks. Concrete walls frame a minimal space, a big Rock of ruff Gold is breaking the grey concrete. Linear lighting and same lineal design in the terrazzo floor inlay. A big wall reminds us the security boxes of Classic bank. We find a spiral star case painted in Royal blue going down to a very dark room, black metal and black mirrors frame the antic Vault. This space was created to make the illusion of been inside a vault What we used: Concrete walls, gold rock and tables and accent of Royal blue sofas and terrazzo floor with gold inlays. Black perforated metal, black mirror walls, glossy black floor to focus all the attention in the antic vault exterior. Very low dimmed lighting making a dramatic lighting effect.