Work

Asda Express

Nationwide

Convenience retail designed around everyday neighbourhood life.

Client Asda

Project Role Design, BRPD, CDM, Retail Delivery

Scale 3,000 sq.ft

Status Ongoing

For more than 50 years, we have worked alongside Asda, helping shape and evolve their retail offer across the UK. Today, that partnership continues through the rollout of Asda Express, a new generation of convenience stores serving busy residential and city centre communities.

Acting as architects across the programme, we translate Asda’s ambition for accessible neighbourhood retail into compact, efficient spaces. Each store is carefully planned to deliver a comprehensive product range within tightly considered footprints, often on constrained urban sites. We design around real patterns of movement, how customers enter, browse, queue and leave, ensuring stores feel intuitive, welcoming and easy to navigate.

Beyond the retail floor, we integrate the services that now define convenience. Parcel collection and returns, and Uber Eats delivery are embedded seamlessly into the layout, enabling stores to operate as local service hubs as well as places to shop. Every decision balances customer experience with operational efficiency, buildability and programme certainty.

Many sites are tight, busy and logistically complex, with restricted access and live surroundings. Our team brings the technical rigour and delivery experience required to maintain safety and high quality design, whilst meeting demanding rollout targets.

Together with Asda, we are helping reshape convenience retail, creating neighbourhood stores that are commercially robust, operationally smart and designed around the rhythms of everyday life.