Citadium: into the future – Design Raid

Located in the heart of the department store district, Citadium Caumartin embodies the new era with a statement concept, designed by ciguë, that gets down to basics by focusing on movement and light.

Cities, ciguë knows, are kinetic spaces, and for Citadium they have opted for a “post-car-park” aesthetic with lines and numbers painted on the floor and vertical Ginza-like signs corresponding to each brand’s retail area. Ciguë continues to disrupt the codes of retail, a field generally corseted by commercial codes – which leave architects little room for maneuver.

The studio puts experimentation back at the heart of their projects. The concrete floors and walls and…