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Retail Asia02/09/2020

South Korea is restricting operations of restaurants, bakeries and franchised coffee chains in the greater Seoul area in an effort to contain a new outbreak of Covid-19. Under the plan that lasts until next Sunday, restaurants and bakeries can operate until 9pm, and only takeaway and delivery will be permitted from 9pm to 5am. For […]

Retail Asia13/01/2020

Singapore’s tiny Voids Cafe is carved out of a monolithic concrete block, reshaped to produce an operational space in just 28sqm. The design, by Studio SKLim’s and featured by online architectural magazine Designboom, was inspired by the “empty space in a coffee cup or matcha bowl” with negative spaces and circular geometries “consistently carried throughout […]

Retail Asia15/08/2019

VG Siddhartha, the founder of India’s largest coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day, has been found dead, in an apparent suicide. Siddhartha had been missing since Monday, last seen by his driver standing on a bridge. He had penned a letter to his board in which he wrote that he could no longer handle pressure from […]

Retail Asia24/04/2019

Design firm Tropical Space has built a coffee shop inspired by a cuckoo clock in Vietnamese seaside city Da Nang. The design, featured by Dezeen, features a brick structure with a house perched on top, with the coffee shop forming a single-storey base and the house extending out over the garden area. The local clay brick […]

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Seoul cafes face new trading restrictions as Covid-19 returns

Singapore’s Voids Cafe takes up just 28sqm, carved out of a concrete block

Body of Cafe Coffee Day founder discovered after apparent suicide

Cuckoo clock inspires Vietnam cafe