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The Eastgate Centreis a shopping centre and office block in central Harare, Zimbabwe, designed by Mick Pearce. Designed to be ventilated and cooled by entirely natural means, it was probably the first building in the world to use natural cooling to this level of sophistication. It opened in 1996 on Robert Mugabe Avenue and Second Street, and ...
Lee Joon, 10.5 years in prison (later reduced to 7.5 years) Lee Han-sang, 7 years in prison. On June 29, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store ( Korean: 삼풍백화점; Hanja: 三豐百貨店) in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to a structural failure. The collapse killed 502 people and injured 937, making it the largest peacetime disaster in ...
Arcade (architecture) An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers. Exterior arcades are designed to provide a sheltered walkway for pedestrians; they include many loggias, but here arches are not an essential element. An arcade may feature arches on both sides of the walkway.
Southdale Center is a shopping mall located in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities. It opened in 1956 and is the first [ 3] fully enclosed, climate-controlled [ 4] shopping mall in the United States. [ 5] Southdale Center has 1,297,608 square feet (120,551.7 m 2; 29.7890 acres; 12.05517 ha) of leasable retail space, and contains 106 ...
The mall was one of the first enclosed, suburban shopping centers in the United States. - Sears, Roebuck and Co/PhotoQuest/Getty Images The first round of malls in the mid-to-late 1950s did have ...
SM City Baguio is the 23rd largest shopping mall in the Philippines. At a floor area of 176,073 m 2 (1,895,230 sq ft), [ 1 ] it is the largest shopping mall in the North Luzon Region . The entire SM City Baguio complex stands on a land area of 80,000 m 2 (860,000 sq ft) on Luneta Hill on top of Session Road overlooking historic Burnham Park and ...
Interior of the Galerie Vivienne in Paris, by Francois Jean Delannoy, 1823-1826 [2] A shopping center ( American English ), shopping centre ( Commonwealth English ), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. [3] The first known collections of ...
Outdoor outlet mall) Manhattan Town Center – Manhattan (1987–present) Metcalf South Shopping Center – Overland Park (1967–2014. Demolished except for the former Sears) Mission Center Mall – Mission (1989–2006. Demolished) Oak Park Mall – Overland Park (1974–present. Largest mall in Kansas and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area)