Part VI of Travels: Architecture of Shopping

Someone told me that the Prada building in Tokyo was pretty cool so I made a special point to go. Prada has started this thing where the architecture of their flagship stores are just as important as the clothes. I know that the LA and New York City stores are pretty cool and so is the Tokyo store. The Tokyo location was designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. The store is like 6 stores high and pretty insane.



This looks like a shower head but there's actually a TV in there. They're all over the store too.


Next to the Prada store there is this complex that has Cartier, Omega, Chloe and a couple other stores. It's pretty cool with all the wood and glass.
You also can't tell how many floors and stores there are in the place which I like.



The Christian Dior store was really pretty too, especially at night.


I don't think you can tell but there's a giant TV playing Dior's runway shows when you first walk into the store.


These buildings make shopping so much more interesting.