Retail And F&B Interiors

MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network) is an architecture practice in Dubai, based at Dubai Design District (d3), and designs retail and F&B interiors for brands in Dubai and New York. Its built interiors, kiosks and pavilions, and a restaurant, include the Send Location flagship store (Dubai, 2025), the Le Monde d’Hermès kiosk (Dubai, 2022), The Migrant Kitchen (New York, 2022), Luminescents (Dubai, 2021) and the Audi Innovation Hub (Dubai, 2018).

All projects: Projects.

• Send Location

  Retail & F&B · Dubai, UAE · 2025 · Built

  Send Location is Khabib Nurmagomedov’s flagship store in Dubai, organized around an octagonal majlis that hosts retail, gatherings and podcasts.

• Le Monde d'Hermès Kiosk

  Retail & F&B · Dubai, UAE · 2022 · Built

  A pop-up kiosk for Hermès in Dubai, designed to travel, with panels 3D printed from recycled plastic in a swirling pattern drawn from the Hermès H.

• The Migrant Kitchen

  Retail & F&B · New York, USA · 2022 · Built

  MEAN* designed the first two dine-in locations of The Migrant Kitchen in New York, with birch structures, mosaic tile and flexible indoor and outdoor seating.

• Luminescents

  Retail & F&B · Dubai, UAE · 2021 · Built

  Luminescents is a temporary pavilion for MANE at Dubai World Trade Centre, built in 2021, hosting ten scents by ten perfumers along one route.

• Audi Innovation Hub

  Retail & F&B · Dubai, UAE · 2018 · Built

  MEAN* designed and built the Audi Innovation Hub in d3 for Dubai Design Week 2018: CNC-bent steel pipes and tensile cables working as one structure.