The powerful and rigorously realized concept of ALEJA shopping center in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, which was integrally designed with BIM by ATP, has created the perfect platform for around 80 shops. And with its rooftop leisure, sporting, and recreational zone and trendy food court the building, which is innovative in both technical and architectural terms, also gives space back to the city.
MVRDV has developed a proposal to radically transform Eindhoven’s Heuvel shopping centre into a green cultural quarter. On its roof, the design features not only a park, but also a stacked cultural building under a \”glass mountain\”. The strategic vision was presented on Tuesday 18th May to an enthusiastic response from the mayor and aldermen of Eindhoven, paving the way for a feasibility study of the Muziekgebouw that is expected before the end of the year.
The Playhouse is a full renovation project of a three storey building located in the busy fashion district of Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan. The ground and first floor accommodate a number of British fashion brands, and the second floor houses a hall designated to a weddings and events planning company. Our team was challenged with envisioning a new spatial model of the post-COVID store by reconsidering the existing functions of brick and mortar retail.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization in our societies to a remarkable degree. What was already an ongoing movement is rapidly indicating a future in which the shopping experience will be increasingly moved to the virtual world. If the act of purchasing is preferred online, we questioned what the physical shop could offer once it is liberated from excessive display and storage space.
YUE City is located next to Xiwan Road in the northern edge of Liwan District in Guangzhou, China. After going through a demanding 600 days of transformation effort, it was unveiled to public in September 26th 2020 as the largest shopping mall in the western district and the second largest in overall Guangzhou city, turning a new page in urban revival.
Historically known as the capital of commerce, Guangzhou City is one of the major gateways of commercial and cultural interchange. The site sits on the northern edge of the Liwan District, about 27km from the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, 18km from the Guangzhou South Railway Station, and 2km from the Guangzhou Railway Station.
LWK + PARTNERS has revealed the winning designs of the two most prominent components of Zhongshan OCT Harbour in Zhongshan, China, a large-scale cultural-tourism project in Shiqi aimed to be a recreational destination in the west coast of China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. They are its riverfront retail mall, which is expected to be the site’s visual landmark and core traffic driver, and the apartment blocks, which defines the topmost part of the overall skyline.
Henry David Thoreau once praised Walden Lake as a teardrop of the God, and hence evoked numerous people’s yearning for lakeside living.
Everyone has a lake in their mind, which brings them serenity, poetry and purity in the bustling city.
Lakeside living, ideal life
Living beside lake is amazing, which enables people to get close to nature and enjoy a peaceful life. As embracing the first light of the sun in the morning and overlooking the rippling waterscape, the mood is refreshed.
The Galleria is Korea’s first and largest upscale department store franchise founded in the 1970s, and has remained at the forefront of the premium retail market in the country since then. The store in Gwanggyo a new town just south of Seoul is the sixth branch of Galleria. Located at the center of this young urban development surrounded by tall residential towers, the Galleria’s stone like appearance makes it a natural point of gravity for public life in Gwanggyo.
This is a shopping mall containing 24 small local stores, located in suburban roadside area of Fukuoka city. The aim of design was to create an advantage to compete with a large shopping center in the neighborhood.
In response to the owner’s request, the buildings are designed as container stacking, which is a common material for the scenery in this roadside area. The main structure is steel frame, and the exterior walls are made of steel panels which are taken from real containers.
The entire buildings are barrier-free. The wooden deck outside connects to the floor inside flatly, allowing access to the second floor as a slope. All doors are slide doors which are easy to open. In addition, multipurpose toilets, children’s toilets, and a nursing room are installed. These design allows various people to spend time at this mall.
Article source: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
The Poly Greenland Plaza office complex, built to a design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), has been selected for the Award of Excellence of the 2020 CTBUH Awards in the Urban Habitat–District/Master Plan category, which qualifies it as a finalist in the Overall Category. The ensemble of office towers and commercial buildings forms a unique address in the city environment. A generous sequence of plazas and an open shopping arcade create diverse urban qualities that link the complex with its surroundings.
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze with Magdalene Weiss
Competition Lead: Hao Yanli, Martin Friedrich
Competition Design Team: Di Miao-Weichtmann, Sebastian Schmidt, Tan Ling, Zhao Mengtong, Jin Tong,Christina Patt
Detailed Design Lead: Sun Yajin
Detailed Design Team: Chen Jingcheng, Martin Friedrich, Saeed Granfar, He Xiaoshu, Li Xi, Liu Jinrui, Liu Yide, Katharina Schneider, Tan Ling, Yu Xiaoliang
‘Reconnecting Urban Life with Nature Through A Flowing Shopping Experience’.
The sheer size of Megabangna shopping complex is as large as a small town. Its central building is perceived as a downtown, whereas Foodwalk zone on the east wing is portrayed as countryside with more green areas and canals. The new extension of retail zone located on the eastern periphery beyond the existing zone could then be conceptualized as a ‘Valley’, one of the most pleasant natural topography in which its intimate central space is enclosed by continuous frontage of lushly mountains.
The architectural concept of the new extension, ‘The Valley’, therefore derives from the geographic character of its metaphor. To create similar atmosphere to a natural valley, the layout of the new open-air mall is composed around a central courtyard space, in which a sunken plaza with an amphitheatre down below acts as a customers’ main social space for gathering and holding all kinds of events.
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