Concepts & Designs
IKEA @ VIENNA, AUSTRIA Swedish furniture and homeware giant reveals plans for car-free store wrapped in greenery
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ore than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA’s citycentre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no car parking spaces. Currently under construction in the Austrian capital, the car-free IKEA store is designed by local studio Querkraft Architekten to address “radically changed customer and mobility behaviours”. IKEA Vienna Westbahnhof, which will have a grid-like form enveloped by greenery, will provide on-the-day delivery services and be easily accessible by foot or public transport. “Consumer behaviour has been changing tremendously over the past years, and so has mobility behaviour. More and more customers do not even think about carrying home their furniture themselves, they have things delivered
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