Alára Concept Store
Providing West Africa with its first signature retail and lifestyle environment, the Alára store promotes emerging talent and establishes a new creative hub in Lagos. Sited in a part residential/part commercial street in Victoria Island in Lagos, Alára is a place for the appreciation and acquisition of “objets d’art” such as furniture, textiles, fashion, sculpture and art. Architecturally, the concept is a celebration of design talent. It is an architectural promenade through the different parts of the programme, culminating with the glazed rooftop space – an art gallery and terrace – that visually connects back to the city. Spatially, the building is a nine-meter-high rectangular volume, containing a series of suspended platforms, staircases and landings that ascend the space, displaying the objects. At the rear, there is a café opening onto a garden that offers shaded respite from the frenetic energy of Lagos. The use of cast concrete, internally and externally, establishes an industrial quality.
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