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The 14 architectural teams around the world were tasked with coming up with new designs for new shops which could be rolled out quickly while being environmentally friendly.Is that a lorry? Before long, the Starbucks drive-through is up and ready for business, serving early-morning drivers The unusual coffee-shop opened in Colorado last week, as part of Starbuck's attempt to try out new ideas - for there must be few towns left which do not have the green mermaid-embossed logo shining out from at least one shop window. So the next logical option is the 'drive-through' copy shop, which led to this pilot project, where the 'shop' was built entirely in a factory, then packed into a lorry before being unloaded in Denver. There is only 500 square feet to pack in a few employees, as well as all the standard equipment needed to make the brand's wide range of coffees - and yet the designers still managed to pack in the art panels which adorn their coffee shops.

Packed up and ready to roll: The Starbucks store is packed into a lorry and then unloaded, and voila! Instant coffee (shop) Look through me: The buildings were built to have glass walls The store operates as a drive-through, and is built to take three or four members of staff as well as fixtures and coffee machines The drive-through contains as much glass as possible to allow sunlight through the building, to create a lighted interior and also to attract the attention of thirsty drivers. Starbucks designs all of their own stores, rather than out-sourcing the work to an architect. Where milk or sugar could be served from a few menus and some landscaping, and the coffee-shop takes shape In an extended feature at Fast Co Design, this team say their influences came from the protecting the environment market growth with low-risk the same low cost and a future towards easy expandability. Senior concept design manager Anthony Perez said: 'To both build scale while having things be locally relevant, that’s really a designer’s problem to solve - it’s a really, really challenging problem. 'What we have done is standardize the interior - but what we want to be able to do is, as people are going around this prefab, we want the materials on that exterior to feel like it’s part of the local environment.