Code for new shoppers’ stops
- Seminar on planning, design and management of malls
SUBHRO SAHA
City Centre has emerged as a magnetic destination in Salt Lake,
energising the erstwhile sleepy township
Did you feel claustrophobic or uncomfortable at the last grand sale at
your favourite store in your preferred shopping mall? Was parking a huge
headache, or the illumination inadequate? Or worse, you felt you just
didn’t belong?
With the city firmly in the grip of ‘mall-eria’ and new arcades and
‘gallerias’ mushrooming right, left and centre, the need to get the
planning, design and management of shopping centres right was never more
imperative.
A three-day national seminar on shopping centres — The City Bubble —
Bazaar and Built Environment, organised by think-tank body Centre for
Built Environment (CBE), attempted to provide critical inputs on
sustainable retail design, with senior architecture students and
developers the core target audience.
“Our budding architects are struggling to keep pace with the speed at
which new malls are coming up. Even established architects are often not
well-acquainted with the guidelines formulated by the International
Council of Shopping Centres for design of organised retail outlets,”
said CBE president Santosh Ghosh.
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