TROPOLISM

Our Cologne correspondant tells us that the P&C (Peek & Cloppenburg in case you didn't know) Department Store is open for business. Renzo Piano's website well-documents the building, and includes some gorgeous photos.

The most interesting retail projects are in Japan and Europe, hands down, because they take as a given that they are defacto public space (even when they aren't really public space). They take pleasure in density and spectacle. And shopping. Ka-ching.