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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods 0 qpurcell Tue, 09/19/2023 - 10:38 Adaptive Reuse As we reimagine the antiquated shopping mall, Marc Asnis, AICP, Associate, Perkins&Will, details four first steps to consider. I’m not saying this just because I’m an Urban Designer, the data bears out this assertion.

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Old Town Baltimore - an unkind mirror of Baltimore's planning history

Community Architect Daily

While we will investigate the trouble (see also my 2016 blog article ), inserted quotes from recent decades show how protracted the problems are. Old Town Mall today: Absolute desolation (Photo: Philipsen) On a typical day, there's nobody inside Bernie Delay's little tailor shop on Old Town Mall. No patrons.

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What should David Bramble do with HarborPlace?

Community Architect Daily

The Gallery Mall across the street didn't even make it to 35 years. That good cities have much more permanence than retail begs the question, whether it was ever smart to tie the future of the Inner Harbor to the vagaries of retail, or asked even more broadly: Is it smart to privatize "the urban commons" in this way.

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Baltimore could have had this

Community Architect Daily

As we will see in a moment, all this could have been in Port Covington, where some forlorn new office buildings face their own uncertain future. County website ) Crystal City and Pentagon City are mashed together, the latter another Metro stop, a mall and shopping mall. Instead, the project rose in Crystal City.

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Seven suggested Principles for the HarborPlace Redevelopment

Community Architect Daily

This loss was comparable to the decline of the malls in the suburb which had taken on the role of communal spaces. Klaus Philipsen, FAIA Related articles on this blog What should David Bramble do with HarborPlace? Developing principles should be the first step of meaningful public participation.

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The Architecture of Cape Town, South Africa – Part 2

DesignScape Architects

In the previous installment of this blog, we left off discussing the impact of Sir Herbert Baker’s building designs on the overall architectural identity of Cape Town in the early 20th century. This series of blog posts seeks to further explore exactly how Cape Town’s architecture came to be, and how we might rebuild for a better future.

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The Capital Center Plan

Architecture Here and There

A future chapter, “The Capital Center Build-Out,” is devoted to buildings of the Capital Center plan. Providence Place mall is totally off the left edge. This aerial view shows location of Providence Place mall more clearly and includes the first Westin Hotel of 1994 but not its 2008 tower addition. Lock and load!

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