Pandora - Manchester T2
Full fit-out of a new shell unit within Manchester Airport's Terminal 2 Transformation Programme, delivering Pandora's first ever standalone airport store in the UK. The project introduces the Pandora Evoke concept to the travel retail environment, a bold, immersive expression of the brand's newest visual identity anchored by a 14-metre pink-tiled facade and twin large-format digital screens.
Pandora — Manchester Airport Terminal 2
When Pandora decided to make its move into UK airport retail, it chose Manchester Airport Terminal 2 as the location for its first ever standalone airport store in the UK — and BrookerFlynn Architects as the team to deliver it.
The project sits within Manchester Airport Group's £1.3 billion Transformation Programme, one of the most significant airport development investments in the UK. Delivering within an active new terminal build programme brings its own distinct set of pressures: interfaces with base build contractors, evolving terminal conditions, and an approvals process through MAG's landlord and building control teams that demands precision, persistence and deep familiarity with airport delivery. BrookerFlynn Architects navigated every stage of that process, securing the technical approvals needed to bring a complex, brand-specific fit-out to completion within a live development environment.
The store itself is a full expression of Pandora's Evoke concept — the brand's newest and most immersive retail identity, making its debut in the UK travel retail space. The defining architectural gesture is a 14-metre pink-tiled facade that commands immediate presence within the terminal's departure environment, flanked by two large-format digital screens that bring the brand's visual identity to life for passing passengers. Inside, the store delivers the complete Pandora offer: the full jewellery range including Pandora Lab-Grown Diamonds and the Gold Pandora Essence collection, in-store personalisation and engraving services, and — reflecting its international airport context — the first UK Pandora location to stock a curated selection of national icon travel charms from destinations around the world.
Coordinating the delivery of a highly brand-prescriptive fit-out, with bespoke tiled shopfront construction and integrated digital screen infrastructure, against the technical requirements of a new terminal environment and MAG's rigorous approval framework, is precisely the kind of complex, multi-strand project BrookerFlynn Architects is built for.
The store opened in July 2025 as the first of three planned Pandora airport openings in the UK, and stands as a landmark moment both for the brand's travel retail ambition and for the continuing transformation of Manchester Airport Terminal 2 into a world-class international departure environment.
