Bespoke Commercial Design & Build

In a commercial space the design is the asset — it has to draw people in, work hard operationally, and still be built on budget and on time. WALLNUT designs and builds highly custom commercial environments — retail and flagship, restaurants and bars, showrooms, galleries and experience-led brand spaces — under a single contract, so an ambitious design survives contact with construction.

Design is the commercial asset

A store, a restaurant or a showroom earns its rent through experience — how it looks, how it flows, how it photographs. We treat the design as the product: bespoke joinery, lighting, materials and detailing, engineered to be real. Structure, MEP, acoustics and the regulations that bite in commercial work (accessibility, fire, food-service) are resolved alongside the concept, not bolted on after it.

Design-build, so ambition gets built

The classic failure in commercial work is a beautiful concept value-engineered into something ordinary the moment a contractor prices it. A single design-build contract closes that gap: the team that designs it prices and builds it, in BIM against a live cost database — so the custom details that make the space are protected by the budget instead of being the first thing cut.

Retail, hospitality, brand spaces

Flagship and boutique retail, restaurants and bars, showrooms and galleries, and experience-led brand spaces — new fit-outs and full transformations of existing premises, across Greater Lisbon and beyond. For corporate office programmes specifically, see also our office design-build.