World's most beautiful malls

[redbaron_012]

Guess there are awesome Malls around the world.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder....and thats the thread here ! Larger and more impressive malls are underconstruction everywhere plus further extension and refurbishment of existing Malls.....Here in Melbourne, Australia, Chadstone continues to amaze me with its expansion and architecture...but its all international architecture..could be in any city of the world...so my choice for the most beautiful......'Galleria' Milan Italy....beautiful !!!!!!!

[daloso]

To qualify how BEAUTIFUL a mall is,is kind of a subjective appreciation.But if we speak in terms of size,well thats different.
let me show you a few pictures of CITY MALL in San Pedro Sula,Honduras:
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Its a small one,compared to those in North America,Europe and Asia.Is my favorite in Honduras.

[Kiev30]

Dnipropetrovsk , Ukraine









Kiev , Ukraine


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[Yörch]

Mexico City's Antara Polanco Mall...

[GregPz]

Originally Posted by redbaron_012

Guess there are awesome Malls around the world.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder....and thats the thread here ! Larger and more impressive malls are underconstruction everywhere plus further extension and refurbishment of existing Malls.....Here in Melbourne, Australia, Chadstone continues to amaze me with its expansion and architecture...but its all international architecture..could be in any city of the world...so my choice for the most beautiful......'Galleria' Milan Italy....beautiful !!!!!!!

Yeah, I agree Galleria in Milan is magnificent. There's hundreds of other huge malls around but there's basically all the same blah

[OtAkAw]

The Galleria Vittoria Emmanuel in Milano, Italy is by far the most magnificent shopping mall I have ever seen, if it is a mall.

Greenbelt in Manila, part of the Ayala Center is second, fabulous interaction between nature and urbanity and it's got a fantastic design too!

[DiggerD21]

The malls in Hamburg's suburbs are all basically the same and not worth to be mentioned in this thread. But you find some nice small malls (or passages) in the city centre.

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Hanseviertel. The mall itself has just 9.000m² out of the 45.000m² complex and was inaugurated in 1980.


Levantehaus



Galleria


Mellin-Passage (Hamburg's oldest an shortest "mall")


There are more malls in the city-centre (incl. the Europa Passage, allegedly Germany's biggest inner-city-mall). But those shown above are IMO the most beautyful Hamburg has to offer.

[Epi]

Originally Posted by Avatar

Langham Place in Hong Kong is rather interesting, not the biggest or most beautiful but has an interesting thing going on anyway...

This is my favorite mall in Hong Kong. I personally think it's quite beautiful and very original for it's design.

To explain... there's a small underground part of a few levels with a traditional underground mall feel. But then as shown in the last picture, there's a huge lobby that looks all the way to the top (about 11 stories). You can either take the escalator that goes all the way to the top which features a number of theme restaurants and a fake 'night sky' ceiling or you can walk up. If you walk, the walkway curves around the edges of the building (the stores actually line the edge, the walkway is towards the center, but there is a significant space in the middle to look all the way down to the lobby from) and slowly goes up as it whirls around the building. In this way there are no stairs exactly, and if you just walk, you will eventually go from the bottom to the restaurants at the top. Pretty innovative design for a mall with a relatively small footprint.

[Macius]

[Justme]

Love that Polish mall! I love it when old industrial buildings are renovated like this.

[Dudly]

Originally Posted by dANIEL2004

European Malls usually are much more better than the Malls in USA... Take an example. Look at the Horton Plaza In Downtown San Diego:the design its too kitsh and trash...Compare it with The Mall Athens in Greece: too elegant, classy and outstanding!!!

I think americans just don't care if malls are beautiful or not, as long as they have good stores and are functional that's all that matters...

[Frankiec]

Originally Posted by Dudly

I think americans just don't care if malls are beautiful or not, as long as they have good stores and are functional that's all that matters...

Most Americans don't want them beautiful, they want them kitschy and tacky with obscene amounts of parking. Entire cities in America are built with these concepts in mind. (Las Vegas is probably the best example.)

[gladisimo]

Originally Posted by Frankiec

Most Americans don't want them beautiful, they want them kitschy and tacky with obscene amounts of parking. Entire cities in America are built with these concepts in mind. (Las Vegas is probably the best example.)

huh? that totally doesn't make sense at all.

But I have to admit, compared to these malls, the malls around my area are garbage.

[Justme]

Damn, I love that Brewery mall in Poland!

[www.sercan.de]

Arial view of the Kanyon complex

[connected_]

Apart from Kanyon Istanbul, these are my favourites:

The Galleries Victoria, George Street, Sydney

Main entrance on George Street (whoever took this must've waited ages to get no cars! lol)
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Interior at night


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And directly opposite TGV, Queen Victoria Building, George Street, Sydney

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Exterior at night
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And one of my personal favourites, Çiçek Pasajı (The Flower Passage) in Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Exterior façade
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It's a nice little intimate spot.

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[Dalston Kingsland]

Sorry but the idea that the ultimate in capitalist kitsch could ever be termed 'beautiful' even in a comparative context is enough to make me

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[Gamma-Hamster]

GUM, Moscow(built in 1890-1893)

[Karakuri]

Wow this rocks. Specially when you compare to Dubai's bad taste kitch heinous malls