Perhaps more than any other stationary structure, stair systems enable us to move quickly and safely from place to place. We rely on stairs to access the potential of almost every setting; a well-placed stair allows us to utilize all available space, regardless of its...
For a mall to attract adequate traffic, its creators must achieve an incredible feat. Their job is devising what will grow into a community’s central hub, a massive commercial structure, which, by virtue of its very existence, is capable of drawing crowds from miles...
I’ve talked briefly in another blog about how shopping centers such as Canada’s West Edmonton Mall draw crowds by incorporating interesting and outrageously unique novelties as design factors, like West Edmonton’s built in, fully enclosed World Water Park, which...
When you enter a shopping mall, what strikes you? Are you indifferent to dated or overly generic designs, or drawn to interesting, unique creative elements? Maybe the presence of installed plants, small trees and other vegetation makes you feel serene; perhaps a...
If asked fifty or so years ago to picture a typical mall, most people probably would have envisioned a blocky brick and mortar structure, it’s entrances equipped with dual, unassuming doors, leading into a skylight-brightened, modest, but (usually) boring space...
