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What happens when a grocer befriends an architect...Austrian big box grocery chain continues to commission beautiful custom-built stores.
Happy shopperTo date, MPreis has worked with more than 30 different practices - most very deliberately local, but more recently the Frenchman Dominique Perrault, responsible for Paris's national library building. The brief is unusually open, but demands something a little different from what's gone before, and it's this refusal to settle on a fixed architectural identity that has given the company the flexibility to be able to fit stores into sites other companies might have thought twice about, and the freedom to unpick many of the supermarket model's long-standing standard assumptions.
* Ray, 8/31/2004 10:31:37 AM
