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More than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA's city-centre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no car parking spaces. Currently under construction in the Austrian capital, the car-free IKEA store is designed by local studio Querkraft Architekten to address "radically changed customer and mobility behaviours". IKEA Vienna Westbahnhof, which will have a grid-like form enveloped by greenery, will provide on-the-day delivery services and be easily accessible by foot or public transport.

""The whole building is geared towards pedestrians, subway and streetcar riders, and cyclists-there is no space for cars," the company writes in German on a store website. The location is next to a tram stop and a three-minute walk from a subway station; like other parts of the city, it's easily accessible by bike. Anything that customers can't easily carry away will be delivered from a new logistics center farther away (and soon, as with other Ikea stores, those deliveries will happen via electric delivery vans). "Our concept is that parking spaces are not needed, because there are no products to buy that require a car," the website says. The company's stores in other large cities are beginning to take similar approaches; there's a store in Manhattan that serves solely as a showroom. Without the need for parking, the building has room for other uses. "It influenced our design radically," says architect Jakob Dunkl, the owner of Querkraft, the Vienna-based firm that worked on the project, comparing it to another Ikea store in Hamburg that's a similar size, but devotes the top floors to parking. "Instead of two parking floors, we have two hostel floors. And there's a huge roof terrace which is open to the public." The ground level will house retailers from an older building that was displaced by the new construction."

"Après le "cliquez et emportez", voici le "cliquez et roulez".Ikea teste dans son magasin de Plaisir, dans les Yvelines, tout près du siège, ce nouveau service qui permet de venir chercher ses meubles commandés sur Internet et de repartir avec...chargés dans une camionnette."

"A Paris, le réveil de la logistique urbaine fluviale Un nouveau service de livraison « verte » par la Seine est inauguré samedi, combinant barge électrique et vélos-cargos. Premier client : Ikea."

"From the outside, the suitcase on wheels doesn't look out of the ordinary at all. Even when opened it looks somewhat unconventional, but it does not for a moment give away that there is an entire hotel room in there, which there is. A bed, a desk with stool and a closet of sorts are just the beginning of what this relatively small suitcase hides within its metal body. Assembly is almost IKEA-esque - easy and quick."