Strategy 03 architecture Reinvention and Reimagination.

Attention to the minuscule detail. Temple Builders. Each and every facet of a retail environment is contemplated and assessed. For every beautiful, well-functioning, experiential wonderland there is a team of people behind it; focused on retail solutions, exploring the role of the environment in echoing brand sentiment and placing the consumer at the heart of the experience. Conner & Sakamura has an unashamed obsession for achieving balance, harmony and scale, coupled with a passion for creating compelling and marketable environments, challenging the norm and delivering spaces that inspire and amaze and ultimately, sell. contact communication architecture concept design strategy
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Strategy 03 architecture Reinvention and Reimagination.

Attention to the minuscule detail. Temple Builders. Each and every facet of a retail environment is contemplated and assessed. For every beautiful, well-functioning, experiential wonderland there is a team of people behind it; focused on retail solutions, exploring the role of the environment in echoing brand sentiment and placing the consumer at the heart of the experience. Conner & Sakamura has an unashamed obsession for achieving balance, harmony and scale, coupled with a passion for creating compelling and marketable environments, challenging the norm and delivering spaces that inspire and amaze and ultimately, sell. LNLA Flight Case LNLA Flight Case for BMW Motorrad, Munich Interior Design • Structural
Spatial Interaction • Service Interface Developed in tandem with LNLA for BMW Motorrad, the flight case is a store-within-store solution for apparel retail, placed in BMW Motorrad dealerships worldwide. This robust and portable solution allows for a premium menswear apparel result that showcases a bi-annual range of garments. This solution was prototyped and delivered with a full merchandising planogram. Gloria Jean’s Coffee, International Gloria Jean’s Coffee, Int Interior Design • Structural
Spatial Interaction • Service Interface Australia’s most recognised coffee bar franchise, Gloria Jean’s (GJC) was in need of a complete brand redesign. As part of our brand solution system, Conner & Sakamura stepped in to address the spatial redesign as an extension of the brand narrative, ensuring the new stores took on more relevance in a changing retail landscape and echoed the opportunity to signal the brand’s sea change.

This project encompassed a full-scale rebrand and brand reposition in the global market, including assessing a variety of store formats such as high street cafes, kiosk and drive-through application, service design and universal aesthetic foundation of spacial usage and materials, upon which a multi-faceted approach across diverse global markets could be implemented. The resultant architectural solution ensures brand continuity and consistency. Tokyo Crows, Tokyo Tokyo Crows, Tokyo Cognitive Business Case • Financial Engineering
Global Brand Positioning • Retail Development Another example of strategic business acumen and the development of brand structure, Tokyo Crows is a Conner & Sakamura conceived and instituted project. Born in Tokyo, all Japanese. A small-space shrine to the essentials of Japanese after-work life – beer, sake, whisky, yakitori + kushiyaki, work colleagues and friends. Tokyo Crows (‘Crows’) promises to transform a stressful day of work or just life in general to a position that truly matters: Comfort.

The choices are simple, the quality undeniable, Crows is Tokyo life, just upgraded. Start by sharing little skewers of goodness, washed down by craft Japanese beer, “only sold in Japan” sake and whisky, or new takes on Japanese cocktails, it’s your choice whether it’s an hour or the whole night. The Criterion, Oklahoma The Criterion, Oklahoma Full Interiors • Bar Concepts
Common Spaces • Green Rooms
Feature Lighting • Overall Experience Ethos The Criterion is located in the heart of Bricktown in Oklahoma City. 500 East Sheridan Ave. on the corner of Sheridan Ave. and Charlie Christian Ave. 36 Degrees North, Tulsa 36 Degrees North, Tulsa Interiors • Finishes
Furnishings • Layouts
Overall Design Ethos We partnered with the directors of 36°N to bring their concept of an incubator and basecamp for entrepreneurs into a space that both encouraged creative thought and collaboration and also allowed for diverse spatial opportunities to work both privately or socially. Integrating material design with furniture, fixtures, art, lighting, and plant life we developed the environmental and experiential standards to transform the typical co-working model into a living, breathing, space for innovation. Manhattan Cricket Club, New York Manhattan Cricket Club, New York Concept Development
Full Design • Branding
Construction • Website Envisioned as membership driven, upscale cocktail den, we worked with the owners to develop their vision from initial idea complete through to finished space. Taking inspiration from the space’s original use as the main floor of an 1870’s four floor town house we custom designed and built the entire space to look and feel as it may have when it was first built and new. All while making it function for the service and atmosphere envisioned and then turning it slightly on it’s ear.

Completely gutted and rebuilt from scratch the process included up to 7 carpenters onsite at any given time handcrafting every piece of wood, molding, beam and brace, and component in the space. It was built as if it were being built in the era of the apartment. Gas lamps fitted for lighting, sliding doors hidden in walls, coffered panelling and ceilings, custom designed and built onsite. Stitch Cafe, Oklahoma Stitch Cafe, Oklahoma Concept Development • Experience Design
Kitchen Design • Collaborative Partnerships Chad and Jen tapped the Idea Collective to develop an experience, atmosphere, design, and service components of their new location. Housed in OKC’s newest development in the West Village near The jones Assembly and 21C, the goal was to create a bright and airy industrial BOHO Chic ethos that would become the new home for their former concept “Okay Yeah”. The Buffalo Lounge, Oklahoma The Buffalo Lounge, Oklahoma Concepted • Co-Founded Concepted, Co-Founded, and everything else involved in pulling together the entire state as a creative lighthouse event for Film, Music and Interactive. West 4th St Development, Cincinnati West 4th St Development, Cincinnati Master Planning • Investment Deck
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