IKEA

Earlier this month, IKEA started construction on a new seven-storey store in Vienna that will have no car parking spaces. Shoppers will be expected to arrive on foot or by public transport, with large items delivered to people’s homes from a nearby logistics center.
Curiousbrand Team
April 19, 2023

Earlier this month, IKEA started construction on a new seven-storey store in Vienna that will have no car parking spaces. Shoppers will be expected to arrive on foot or by public transport, with large items delivered to people’s homes from a nearby logistics center.  The Vienna store also features a public rooftop park which will be open to citizens even when the store is closed, and over 160 (!) trees thanks to its semi-open lattice structure. Furthermore, the top two floors will host the new Accor hostel-hotel hybrid concept JO&JOE among other communal spaces.  

Our readers – you trend-savvy lot! – won’t be too surprised with this move. Since starting to offer online delivery in 2016 (gasp!), the big box retailer formerly known as IKEA has been outspoken about the need to transform its business model, for example it opened an urban planning studio in Manhattan last year.

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