A store in Atlanta where children can paint ceramics and make slime balls with their parents is one of several winners in a retail trade association’s yearly awards program for architectural design.
The Shop! Association named 40 winners in the United States, Canada and other countries of its 2024 Design Awards. Architecture and interior design firms were cited in categories including storefront architecture, pop-up shops, brand activation, historic preservation, signs and lighting fixtures.
The winners “challenge design norms and inspire our industry to create in-store spaces with an outside-the-box vision,” Shop! executive director Murray Kasmenn said in a statement.
Camp, a New York-based retailer with seven U.S. locations, opened its Atlanta store last year at CTO Realty Growth’s Ashford Lane shopping center. Little Diversified Architectural Consulting converted a former La-Z-Boy furniture store to “an experiential space that seamlessly blends product and play,” the firm said on its website.
“Camp Atlanta features a large retail area and multiple engagement zones where children and their families can shop and participate in hands-on activities,” Little Diversified said.
The 14,000-square-foot Camp store blends hardwood floors and wood paneling with brightly colored signs and decorations. Child-sized tables and chairs are set throughout the store, inviting families to spend time together. A vintage lime-green Ford Bronco sits in the middle of the store with a ladder to let kids climb inside.
Shop! chose the 40 winners from hundreds of entries in 17 categories. The winners, selected by an independent panel of judges, run the gamut from fashion boutiques to supermarkets to coffeeshops.
The awards went to independent architecture firms, branding specialists and in-house design departments. Target’s in-house design team, for example, was a gold winner for its redesign of a store in San Antonio, Texas.
Shop, based in Montclair, New Jersey, represents retailers, architecture firms, interior designers, marketing firms, furnishing designers and manufacturers other retail industry representatives.
Other winners include:
- JLL Design Solutions for Australian company Funlab’s first U.S. location of its indoor miniature golf franchise, Holey Moley, in Denver;
- TPG Architecture for its storefront and interior design work for a new Birkenstock store at 111 NE 40th Street in Miami; and
- Cushing Terrell for its storefront design at a new Metropolitan Market supermarket location at 8532 15th Ave. NW in Seattle.