Top Toy Global Flagship Store by Li Xiang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2026
Top Toy Global Flagship Store
by Li Xiang
Client: Top Toy
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Top Toy Global Flagship Store
Top Toy is the interior design of a global flagship store located on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai. The store uses a gamified spatial language inspired by toy packaging and classic gaming consoles. The facade recalls a blister package, and the staircases are arranged like game levels. Colorful character zones, coffee spots and building blocks form scenes that guide exploration. Modular construction and bold colors support the playful theme. The design aims to make physical retail interactive and emotionally engaging for visitors of all ages.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Top Toy Global Flagship Store is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Top Toy Global Flagship Store is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Top Toy Global Flagship Store is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Top Toy global flagship store in Shanghai redefines retail with gamified spatial design, turning shopping into immersive play. Inspired by toy packaging and retro consoles, it blends modular construction, bold colors, and IP interaction to spark cross-generational resonance. The design enhances visual impact, streamlines exploration, and fosters emotional engagement — transforming a store into a spatial game world.
- Tags
- interior, retail
- Research
- On Nanjing East Road, which represents a typical urban block, Top Toy’s first global flagship store in Shanghai infuses the commercial atmosphere with a sense of ease and humor through the spontaneity of play. This breaks away from the stern and rigid nature of traditional commercial architecture and creates a relaxing and delightful interactive space for consumers using a gamified spatial language. As the first flagship project in the brand's global strategy, the store not only serves as a pioneering initiative but also undertakes the mission of driving commercial innovation through design and reshaping the consumer experience.
Grounded in keen commercial insights, the designer integrates the concept of "gamification" throughout the spatial design, creating an immersive space that is both a benchmark for the brand and forward-looking in its commercial approach. This provides a new solution for the transformation and emotional upgrade of physical retail. - Inspiration
- Inspired by the aesthetics of classic gaming consoles and the joy of play, the design draws on collective memories across generations. It reimagines the gaming world into a tangible experience, blending nostalgia, youth culture, and IP narratives. The aim was to emotionally reconnect users to the physical retail space, and create an interactive, story-rich, gamified journey for all ages.
- Project Duration
- The project is located on Nanjing East Road, one of Shanghai’s most iconic commercial streets, and officially opened to the public in January 2025 as the brand’s first global flagship.
- Operation Flow
- The space invites people to explore like players in a game. From entering the “blister package” façade to navigating staircases like game levels, each area is a scene with missions and rewards. Colorful IP zones, coffee spots, and building blocks create moments of discovery. It feels playful and intuitive—visitors don’t just shop, they play, connect, and remember.
- Image Credits
- SFAP
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