Shopping Mall Design | Retail Park | Betty Blue | Roermond | Netherlands | NIO Architecten

As unambiguous as this shopping machine is lying here on its doorstep, waiting for visitors, as ambiguous it is in relation to its shape and colour, it is sometimes straight and other times round, from the one side purple and from the other side blue. In the shelter of this enormous lifted and stretched drop of water, an inner square with almost exotic conditions has been shaped. It is as if a whole life of its own has been able to develop itself inside this inner space, in which façade openings, bill boards, lampposts, wastebaskets, bicycle sheds and road markings have gone through a joint and balanced growth. As if they have been able to prepare themselves in peace for years, for the arrival of hundreds of thousands of visitors and their cars, ready to host and not being interested in anything else but to treat their guests to that one, exclusive experience.........more

Galeria Centercity Facade | Cheonan | Korea | UNStudio

The strategy for the building enclosure consists of creating an optical illusion. The facades feature two layers of customized aluminium extrusion profiles on top of a back layer of composite aluminium cladding. The vertical profiles of the top layer are straight; but those of the back layer are angled. This results in a wave-like appearance, which changes with the viewpoint of the spectator (Moiré effect)..................more

Shopping Mall Design | House Of Fraser Store | Bristol | UK | Stanton Williams

The building comprises massive cubic volumes at its upper levels, juxtaposed and cantilevered out above a single-storey plinth. Their dynamic sculptural form recalls shifting tectonic blocks, an impression reinforced by the fossil-rich Roach bed Portland stone with which they are predominantly clad.........more

Shooping Arcade Design | Mayfair | London | OR Project

The proposal for a high end shopping arcade in Mayfair, London, will greatly enhance the currently unused potential of this prime location. Luxury retail happens on three floors, and cafes and restaurants with outdoor seating are covered by a new glass canopy across the street.

The canopy shape is a single surface structure suspended from above. The minimal surface is developed around an L-system diagram, distributing the tensile forces between the individual glass elements........more

Shopping Centre Design | Leisure and Shopping Center Westside Bern-Brünnen | Switzerland | Burckhardt Partner

In Westside, which has been realized upon the initiative of the Migros retail concern, people are able to engage in a wide range of pursuits, 365 days a year. This progressive leisure and shopping center is embedded in the Brünnen Development, the most significant large scale architectural project in the west of the city of Berne. This development will create 800 jobs and provide housing for 2600 people........more

The Matsu Flagship Store | Shanghai | EXH Design

The Matsu Flagship Store is located on the noisy Zhaojiangbang Road. To isolate the store from its buzzing environment, we aimed to make it “a store under the trees”. The façade is made of aluminum panels with Gingko leaf pattern. As the sun is gently filtered through the perforated façade and the leaf shadows are cast upon the floor, one feels as if he is wandering amongst the gingko trees. The leaf shapes cut from the aluminum panels were then embedded in the interior concrete floor, allowing people to revel in the romance of fallen leaves........more

Shopping Mall Design | New City Centre Minsk | Belarus | BRT Architekten

The plot is located in a scenic area to the north-east of the city centre of Minsk and can be reached via an arterial road that leads to the airport. In a easterly direction about 850 m away is the new National Library of Belarus that has become a famous landmark of modern development in Minsk due to its dimension and its appearance. To the east the plot is bordered on by a belt of dense forest. The task of the design is to develop a multi-purpose complex with diverse recreational and business utilisations such as a shopping mall, a supermarket, an entertainment centre with a family and a night entertainment area, an office centre, a 5-star business hotel, an apartment hotel and a sport centre. The working field consists of two trapezoidal areas of which one is intended for the main utilisations, the other for parking solutions. The total area amounts to approx. 80,300 sqm...........more

Ulker Arena / Alpella Youth City Istanbul | Turkey | DDG

A proposed LEED certified sports, lifestyle and entertainment development comprising of a multi-use arena, shopping, hotel, parking, offices, cinemas and theater uses focused around an interactive multimedia events plaza. The 620,000 sf/57,000sm development will open in 2010......more

The Vache Noire shopping centre | Arcueil | Paris | BDP

A landmark retail building with a green heart.

The Vache Noire shopping centre is on a sloped site and therefore largely underground, to allow for the creation of a public garden on the roof of the building.

The large gently sloped garden, covering the shopping centre, rises towards the south and is easily accessible from the surrounding streets, and the public areas of the town of Arcueil. It offers the community a green haven right in the middle of the town centre.

Vache Noire is made up of two main levels of shops together with two other partial levels with a food and leisure offer, all located above three levels of the underground car park. The northern part of the project is bordered by a housing development of eight terraced levels overlooking the public garden to the south........more

Architectural Competition | 1st prize | Shopping Center Alpenstrasse | Shopping Center in Salzburg | Austria | Atelier Thomas Pucher

THE GREAT GIFT - A shopping center which look like shopping
The expansion of the shopping center provides a clear and positive landmark along the Alpine Road.
The shape and surface of the building resembles a large "gift", a little packed, exciting worth it to be discovered - an attraction. Through this unusual symbolism to represent the characteristics of the shopping center, the customer is from the outside is visible from afar and enticing way: variety, excitement, entertainment, tender, just shopping and entertainment.

STRETCH THE MALL - The Market Place Shopping
Inside a conventional Mallkonzept with the concept of the marketplace is crossed. The result is surrounded by the costs incurred by the stores' Stretch-Mall ", a very large mall, a marketplace that hosts are catering areas and island shops. This form of central Mallfläche offers the advantage of maximum clarity and simultaneity of supply and thus a high intensity and serenity of the shopping experience.

THE GOLDEN ATRIUM - attraction and light inside
The Golden Atrium, a specially designed light passes through vertical space the whole building and connects the individual floors. In addition to the natural exposure and the spatial content of this atrium is due to its special shape and surface with an exciting, be experienced differently in each floor spatial experience - an attraction of the SCA......more

AVENIDA 8 | Sao Joao Da Madeira | Portugal | Laguarda Low Architectureo

Nestled into a hillside of the small town of Sao João Da Madeira, this new retail center is the largest building in the town. Because of the sheer size of the site, the challenge of the design was to create a building both responsive and friendly to the human scale of the town, while presenting itself as a modern and elegant unified whole. The shopping center is on two levels with two parking levels below grade, taking advantage of the depressed ground of the site. The shopping flows along a single promenade from the southeast to the northwest beginning with a grand receiving plaza at the south entrance. The façade facing the street is partially transparent, which integrates the inner promenade with the town, and opens the shoppers’ experience to the urban environment. Additionally, a bridge was built to connect the supermarket and second level of the shopping center, and is double loaded with small scale retail. The bridge becomes not just a passageway; but a place to shop, to pause and look down on the city.....more

Studio Shift | Retail Center | Riverside Miyi, South Lake

Studio Shift newest retail center runs along the riverside in Miyi, and its position allows it to capitalize on the naturally cleansed waters of the South Lake area. The center creates a significant public space with a direct connection to the water so the complex becomes a destination for relaxation and water-based recreation due to the favorable climate. Retail is arranged such that equipment for various watercrafts, which can be launched directly from the rental facility, line the channel while restaurants and a cafe sit along the pier.

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Evoking the materiality and massing of the mountainous terrain of Miyi, the three buildings are conceptually carved from one solid entity and reconnected through the public plaza. The subtractive process frames views to the surroundings. The stone-clad facade suggests weight and permanence and utilizes locally-sourced materials.

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An extensive climbing wall that can be used both from the exterior and the intrior is articulated as a glass-clad void inserted into the solid mass of the structure. The south-facing plaza maximizes sun exposure as it extends outward, its edge disintegrating into the water as a series of steps enabling residents and tourists to immerse their feet in the refreshing and naturally cleansed waters of the South Lake. It is here where the descending plaza stairs meet a gradually submerged plane, providing the critical, yet casual transition from land to water-based activity.

Umraniye Retail Complex & Multiplex | Istanbul, Turkey | Foreign Office Architects

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Architects: FOA Foreign Office Architects, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Location: Istambul, Turkey
Collaborators: Friedrich Ludewig, Kenichi Matzusawa, Chris Yoo; Schemes, Detail Design: Friedrich Ludewig, Christian Wittmeir, Samina Azhar, Andrei Gheorghe, Emory Smith, Ebru Simsek, Eduarda Lima
Client: Metro Group AG
Constrution year: 2007
Constructed Area: 55.000 sqm
Budget: 34 M EURO ( US $53,37 M)
Photographs: Cristóbal Palma, Friedrick Ludewig
Text and drawings from Archdaily

Pedregal Shopping Centre | Pascal Arquitectos | México City

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Construction: Pascal Arquitectos
Date: 2007

Area: 7.000.00 m2.
Location: Av. de las Fuentes nº 425 Colonia Jardines del Pedregal Delegación Álvaro Obregón, México City

This project comes to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City which has been neglected, because nothing new and important had happened since its beginings when “Cuidad Universitaria” was built. Nowadays the real-estate pressure and the need of services are beginning to promote significant changes. The way that this building relates with its context, is by breaking up with what is common to the zone, which are big houses in big areas surrounded by very high stone walls which do not let anybody know what is happening outside and vice versa. This goal is achieved with the main facade that consists of two elements: one of them linen with a zinc plate with large irregular perforations to which a different shades of yellow and translucent laminated glass section is inlay. It allows the view of the interior event from the outisde, and at the same time allowing the view of the exterior event from the inside; in such way the public social spaces mix and the limits within the urban and the private become frontiers. The project consists of two commercial levels and a roof garden and two underground parking levels. Mobility impaired individuals access and areas are included: ramps, special parking spaces, elevators, etc.; car reception area at the entrance and the exit to avoid parking in the public way, numerous garden areas, including the roof; car delivery zone inside the first parking basement floor.

This is a sustainable and intelligent development project with an automation and control system that contemplates passive and active energy saving resources: lighting and extraction control, opening and closing façade rolling doors, air conditioning, security and control access, prevention signage, CCTV, all of them scheduled and synchronized. The main facade consists of two elements: one is covered with a zinc plate with large irregular perforations, the other one is a laminated glass box with different shades of yellow and translucentness.

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Shopping Centre | Mega Baumax | Vienna, Austria | Walter Stelzhammer

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The project is based upon an urban development concept made in cooperation with architect Ernst Hoffmann.
Our aim was to plan a building centre with about 10.000 m2 sales area.
The usually separated departments for home improvement and gardening are in this case concentrated in one single building. The home improvement area develops in two floors and the gardening department spreads over an interior and an exterior ground floor area.
Following different needs in height, we’ve designed a slightly bowed roof, descending from the front-peak down to the porch over the outdoor sales area in the rear.
The facade was supposed to function as a shop-window and was to allow natural lighting, but it had to hide the high rise racks and storage rooms as well.
Therefore we’ve chosen to reduce cladding only to two elements:
Glass fronts, where the interior presents itself as a showcase and Trimo facade panels for closed walls and blinds for the delivery and the storage areas behind.
In order to integrate the outside zones in the main building, the glass fronts and Trimo-façade-panels were used as well to enclose the open sales areas of the gardening department.
Though the most outstriking part of the object is certainly the distinctive tapered glass front at the main front, a veritable eye catcher seen from the Brünnerstrasse.
According to our original concept, a three-dimensional logo was planned to be placed in its inner space, but the idea wouldn’t be accepted by the advertising department yet.

Address: Brünner Straße 74 / Shuttleworth 2-4, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Architect: Walter Stelzhammer
Collaboration: Adrian Ryser (PL). Lana Nikolic, Waltraud Meier, Ömer Selcuk Baz, Didem Durakbasa; FA.
Client: Schömer Fa, Fa Immorent
Planning: 2001
Executions: 2003-2004
Photographs: Rupert Steiner

Sports Park Stožice, Stožice, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2009 | Sadar Vuga Arhitekti

Type: Leisure and sport, shopping
The Sports Park Stožice integrates a football stadium and a multi-purpose sports hall with a big shopping centre, covered by the artificial landscape of the recreational park. As a result 182,000sqm Sports Park Stožice becomes one of the major focal points of Ljubljana's urban life, attracting people of different interests and generation both during the daytime and in the evenings.
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"Bar-code" ("Shtrikh Code"). Multifunctional trade complex, St. Petersburg, Russia | Vitruvio and Sons

Project - 2004-2005, construction - 2005-2007
Images from:Vitruvio and Sons