Friday, April 13, 2007
building typology study - random facade treatments
on sv road the new malls near the station. calling them 'malls' is pushing it, really. more like shopping centers whose flat facades change the scale of the shopping street completely.
thakur cinema, kandivili - where aluminum composite cladding makes aztec or is it egyptian references- or maybe art deco?
the new oberoi mall and office complex on the highway. frosted glass facade and a white hulk and behind it the skeletal frame for i assume an all glass prism
the first large shopping complex on link road- sub kucch- built when mind space was still a stinking dump. no alucobond here
inorbit mall whose massive facade is broken up into what i assume is imagined to be 'human' scale with a variety of alucobond volumes- all in grey. very austere. :)
housing at lokhandwala. massive frame within frame. white to a dark green inside. rounded edges making a chasm in between
from shoppers stop juhu the new sra scheme across the naala
watsons hotel in kalaghoda whose heritage iron frame has been taken over by the tenants whims and fancies
on d n road the grand entranceway above the arcade is being formed by the skirts of these stern sword bearing guards
stock exchange catches the evening light on the glass edge
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one of our ad projects should be to design a shopping mall.
in this jury, it struck me that we're so condescending towards the whole idea of the mall.. i think a lot of us would end up following the same typology, or just introduce the concept of the 'street'!
YUCK PAPPU!
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