27 Old Bond Street Renovation The DKNY store at 27 Old Bond Street was the first Donna Karan flagship store. The building is a radical reconstruction, retaining only the facades of the existing 1920s building adjacent to the listed Royal Arcade. The challenge was to insert a new frontage on a highly varied and well-loved streetscape and to create something clearly new yet not overbearing or discordant. The result is a bold exercise in marrying conservation to striking new design, providing a new take on Mayfair and in tune with the aspirations of the client. Though externally discreet, the reconstructed building offers shoppers a strikingly contemporary experience – “shopping as theatre” – in a dramatically reconfigured interior. The adjacent arcade, with its lightweight metal and gl

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