Largest Shopping Malls in the World

[Daniel Athias]

Shopping malls are called here in Brazil as Shopping Centers...or just "Shoppings"...
the biggest problems of building malls is the fact that your destroying the the luxuary stores of the streets, and the city becomes empty...this way of life ephasizes the private spaces not the public ones...turning the city more "closed", and inacessible...
but i agree that are some great points too, they can use the malls to creat development to degradeted areas too!

[xlchris]

In the Netherlands we have shoppingmall Alexandrium near Rotterdam;







You have Alexandrium I, II and III

[ames]

HO BIGGEST SHOPPING OFCURS DUBAI MALL.

[netaholics13]

surprise not to see indonesian malls on the list... here's one of them Mal Taman Anggrek, Jakarta 3,875,007.750 ft² or 360,000 m2 http://www.taman-anggrek-mall.com

[Naija]

Visited Dubaimall a couple of days back and it is HUGE...Dont even bother trying to cover it in a day...The star attraction though is the gigantic aquarium

[cncity]

Originally Posted by rockin'.baltimorean

i noticed that no one mentioned the mall of america in minnesota...

The Mall of america is probably one of the most boring malls....like most other north american malls...If you have been to any other typical american mall, you wont find anything interesting in the Mall of america...I went to minneapolis just to visit the mall and was very disappointed...

[Naija]

Some Dubaimall Aquarium pics
[IMG]http://i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr188/cunchor/Picture038.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr188/cunchor/Picture040.jpg[IMG]

[Naija]

[TEHR_IR]

dubai mall is amazing

[skytrax]

+1

[montesky]

the one in dubai is magnificent indeed...mall in istambul is not bad neither. however, even though two biggest malls from the list shown in the second post are situated in china, they both look extreamly cheap

[AAPMBerlin]

Originally Posted by Naija

Some Dubaimall Aquarium pics
[IMG]http://i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr188/cunchor/Picture038.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr188/cunchor/Picture040.jpg[IMG]

[Avian001]

This has been posted before, but The Mall Of America's (MOA) expansion was approved by the city about two months ago, and will bring the size to nearly 10 million sq. feet (910,000 sq. meters).

The $1.8 billion Phase 2 will include a 4-level, 5.6 million square-foot expansion on 42 acres connected to the current MOA, and will also link to the existing IKEA. The developers estimate that the current 40 million visits per year will expand to 60 million when Phase 2 opens. (40 percent of those visitors come from a distance greater than 150 miles.)

All of the plans and diagrams can be found here on the City of Bloomington's website.

The project is approved and designs are well underway by KKE Architects of Minneapolis. A 300,000 sq. ft. Bass Pro Shop, Kimpton Hotel and a 6,000-seat performing arts center are in the mix, along with 450+ new stores added to the current 520. Here are some earlier concept drawings:

[railway stick]

Here are a few impressions of the largest mall in Germany, called `Centro` in Oberhausen (Ruhrarea). It attracts millions of people, from Germany and the Netherlands, due to its location near The Netherlands. Often considered as the largest in Europe (?), I must say, shopping in Centro is pretty amazing.

01. Main entrance from the north:



02. Sure, this is The Coca Cola Oasis:



03. Long live Corporated America! :



04. Overview western part of the mall:



05. Outside and within walking distance, you can visit other attractions, like Cinemas (as shown), Sealife Center, Modellbahnwelt Oberhausen, or the Arena Stadium (boxing, pop concerts):



06. Finally, an overview from the nearby Gasometer, 117 meters high:


Thanx for sharing.

[manila_eye]

i miss the mall of america. hope to get back there next year.

[manila_eye]

Originally Posted by phillybud

Malls are dying in the US. Not because of the very recent economic problems, they have been dying for the last 10 - 15 years here.

They are considered both passe and declasse ... only teenagers go to them. Fashionable shopping streets have made a big comeback, and also specialized districts such as fashion districts and home design districts. Many people hate the acres of parking and the distances to walk to get to one of the shops.

Malls were big here in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Finally we are becoming more like Europe ... London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Rome - they don't need malls and don't want malls.

we need malls because it's hot here. you don't want to walk to a shop under a freakin' temperature.

[*Jarrod]

West Edmonton Mall is... well... a mall. It's huge, but if you've been to one mall, you've been to WEM except WEM has a whole shit load of attractions to go to. And apparently they're going to be expanding soon... that's just what I've heard, no sources, just hearsay

[f.e.s.b.r.]

where are all the shoplifts people?

[youo]

i think the moroccomall looks the best out af all of them.

[Huti]

Originally Posted by The other Dude

i hate malls :-D

double that