Bulgari’s jade façade made from recycled champagne bottles!

MVRDV completes Bulgari flagship store in Shanghai featuring an arresting green, jade-like façade made from brass and recycled champagne, beer, and other glass bottles. Bulgari Shanghai is the third flagship store façade in MVRDV’s ongoing partnership with the luxury Italian jewellery brand. Like the previous designs, the Shanghai project makes use of a visual motif inspired by the portals and cornices of Bulgari’s first original boutique on Rome’s Via dei Condotti, adopting the recognisable visual identity that now distinguishes their stores worldwide. However, in a twist on the previous designs, this motif is not used to form windows in the […]