Sotheby's unveiled its permanent showroom at the upscale Pacific Place complex, which will allow it to conduct business year-round instead of only during auction season.
He should find some ideas (less dogmatic ones than Mr. Panton's, who had such draconian views on the subject that he always dressed in blue) in the color laboratory of the VitraHaus, the stunning new showroom at Vitra's production complex in the German town of Weil am Rhein.
A 155-acre complex of office buildings, showrooms, hangar-size garages, sales lots and campsites, Lazydays is the country's largest recreational vehicle dealership.
The site is being turned into "Campbell's Meadow", a £40m complex with a hotel, car showroom and Tesco Extra.
When Kaufmann first arrived in Chengdu, in 2012, to take a position at Langji, he was installed in the showroom of the company's newest apartment complex, an art-deco high-rise designed to evoke Gilded Age glamor.
A young property developer from the north of England named Harry Hyams had commissioned him to design a high-rise, mixed-use complex - office tower, shops, showroom and apartments - at St Giles Circus, on the junction of Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street.
Toyota is also trying to hook young customers through MegaWeb, a sprawling $150 million showroom and amusement park next to a shopping complex on an island in Tokyo Bay. Teenagers, young adults and parents with children in tow meander amid 140 Toyota models on display, widescreen driving simulators and a handful of theaters showing short virtual-reality or 3-D movies.
One of the most closely watched is Mercedes House, a zigzagging rental-and-condo complex, whose ground floor has a Mercedes showroom.
Over the next few years, he and a team of architects turned the three buildings into the chic modern sienna-colored brick complex it is now, carving out sunny showrooms, enormous arched windows and a stylish courtyard.
He talked Harley-Davidson into lending him $6 million of the $8.7 million cost of building a 40,000-square-foot complex that would be more than a motorcycle showroom.
But the most dynamic structure here has yet to be built: a low, sloping showroom that will one day be the entrance point for the complex.
