World's Finest Department Stores

[freeCom]

How many department stores there are in Seoul?

[freeCom]

Illum København, Østergade, Kongens Nytorv/Strøget.

[freeCom]

I strongly admire the British Department Stores but here is some of the other ones that I might be interested:

De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam


Karstadt Department Store, Berlin, the architects are from the state of Saxony.


Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), Stockholm

[freeCom]

La Rinascente, Rome. The Greek Style Building located in the core of the city.


Printemps, Paris. Also the Greek Style.

[parcdesprinces]

Originally Posted by freeCom

Printemps, Paris. Also the Greek Style.

Perhaps, but I would say: more Second-Empire Style !!!! (and the interior was originally in Art-Nouveau Style)

[LoveCPH]

Important note is that the Karstadt Departmentstore was bombed during the war.

[Manolo_B2]

Jelmoli Warenhaus - Zürich

[ArkinMourad]

Originally Posted by Justme

Yes, it is pretty clear. The thread has "Department Store" in the name. As for the independent stores inside the Kaufhaus des Westens, that is actually quite common in large department stores around the world and usually found in the perfume department for the major labels, but also maybe a chemist or tailor etc. But it still doesn't stop them from being a department store because it is such a small part of their overall store.

A mall on the other hand, is right from the beginning a collection of independent shops. A mall can contain a department store and often does.

A department store is right from the beginning a single store with different departments. It can contain a small section which has small separate shops and often does.

You were wrong, and you are still arguing it. Nothing is going to change the fact that you were wrong. It is time now to learn.

so 50,000 sqm department store is small ?

[parcdesprinces]

Here are some more from France :

Galeries Lafayette Strasbourg









Galeries Lafayette Angers





Galeries Lafayette Toulouse





Galeries Lafayette Biarritz









Galeries Lafayette Lille







Galeries Lafayette Nice







Printemps Lyon





Printemps Lille





Printemps Deauville (mini Printemps )

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Galeries Lafayette in Strasbourg and Nice look pretty cool!!

Thanks for posting

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Originally Posted by ArkinMourad

so 50,000 sqm department store is small ?

No one said it was.

And just FYI some of the world's biggest department stores like Macys and Harrods are upwards of 90 000 sq m

[Newcastle Historian]

Some of you may find the below thread of interest . . .

THE DEPARTMENT STORES OF NEWCASTLE - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1005737

[isaidso]

I didn't realize Galleries Lafayette was a chain. I thought it was just one store.

[parcdesprinces]

Yeah, it's even a group (71 department stores, including affiliated ones + several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Inno etc) : en.wikipedia.org/Galeries Lafayette Group

Outside metropolitan France, there are Galeries Lafayette stores in Fort de France (Martinique, French Caribbean), Berlin, New York (closed in 1994), Dubai and Casablanca.


Galeries Lafayette Berlin

[minneapolis-uptown]

this WAS the flagship Dayton's store in downtown Minneapolis. they recently changed it into a Macys

[alacanti]

Is Galeries Lafayette in Berlin the only store of this chain out of France?

[let forever be]

Princes Square, Glasgow,Scotland:

Exterior shot:


Interior shot:

[let forever be]

Exterior:


image hosted on flickr


Interior:
image hosted on flickr

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Prince's Square is a shopping centre, not a department store

[let forever be]

Originally Posted by Sky_Is_The_Limit

Prince's Square is a shopping centre, not a department store

I put it on as it is not as conventional as a shopping mall and has a collective group of departments on each floor similar to a department store.

The one after it is House of Fraser, also in Glasgow.