the-economics-and-nostalgia-of-dead-malls OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Inside the gleaming mall here on the Sunday before Christmas, just one thing was missing: shoppers. The upbeat music of “Jingle Bell Rock” bounced off the tiles, and the smell of teriyaki chicken drifted from the food court, but only a handful of stores were open at the sprawling enclosed shopping center. A few visitors walked down the long hallways and peered through locked metal gates into vacant spaces once home to retailers like H&M, Wet Seal and Kay Jewelers. “It’s depressing,” Jill Kalata, 46, said as she tried on a few of the last sneakers for sale at the Athlete’s Foot, scheduled to close in a few weeks. The Owings Mills Mall is poised to join a growing number of what real estate professionals, architects, urban planners and Internet enthusiasts term “dead malls.” Continue reading the main story Share of malls with vacancy rates of 10 percent or higher (considered a sign of trouble) “It is very much a haves and have-nots situation,” said D. At Owings Mills, J.
NEVERENDS - Exploration Urbaine - Urban Exploration - Friches // Perspectives concours piscine Molitor Concours de la piscine Rohrbach-lès-Bitche Pour illustrer l'appel d'offre de la communauté de communes, l'agence d'architecture Caméléon Cube voulait des images "vivantes" de leur piscine. Il est classique de réaliser des perspectives intérieures et extérieures d'un tel projet, mais ce qui le rend attractif est bel et bien la mise en situation des loisirs proposés. Le projet image n'est pas seulement une illustration statique des plans d'un bâtiment, il est la représentation réaliste de l'idée première de l'architecte. Vue d'ambiance du bassin ludique. Perspective du parking en Evergreen.
urban exploring :: Home Fallout Urban Exploration A New Life for Dead Malls In case you haven’t heard, suburban malls are on the way out (sorry Paul Blart). Some have become abandoned wastelands popular for ruin porn. Others have been torn down and turned into industrial sites. According to Ellen Dunham-Jones, an architect and professor at Georgia Tech, there are about 1,200 enclosed malls in the United States, and about one-third of them are dead or dying. “The malls died for a reason,” she told me. As anchor brands such as JC Penney, Sears, and Macy's close stores and Americans show a preference for shopping online or in walkable urban centers, more malls are expected to close. But there is good news: In many areas of the country developers are finding new uses for dead malls. “Malls are being turned into medical centers, colleges, elementary schools, churches,” she said. The Highland Mall in Austin, Texas, for instance, was named one of "America’s Most Endangered Malls” by U.S. “What happens when a mall begins to deteriorate and no longer function as a mall?”
Urban Exploration-More than a walk in the park « The Thicketeer Yesterday I made mention of one of my favorite subjects, Urban Exploration. For those of you who were intrigued, this is the post that will answer some of your questions and (hopefully) give you some new ones. I cant really recall where I first heard about urban exploration (to be abbreviated as UE from now on). I was probably playing around on google on one of my more restless days, searching for things like “adventure” and “explore”. Either way, I stumbled my way onto a page that mentioned UE and gave a brief description of it. I thought to myself, “Hey, I like to explore! The first step for me was a specific google search. Does that not sound freaking AWESOME? At this point my interest level went from “Hey, this is neat” to “OHMYGOD, how do I do this?” Urban Exploration, as I understand it, is quite a simple concept. There is a strong code of ethics behind UE that follows some other organization’s motto quite closely. Neat, huh? Now to pepper you with links and resources. Like this:
24 Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities 24 Global Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities Article by Urbanist, filed under Abandoned Places in the Architecture category. What in the world could cause an entire city to be abandoned? This Halloween, forget the plastic cape and cheesy costume. Ancient Underwater City Alexandria
Sub-Urban - Urban Underground Exploration Zone-Tour : Database of Urban Exploration Euclid Square Mall | Architectural Afterlife Euclid Square Mall – Abandoned? Or just an eerie reminder of how easily we forget? I wanted to post this here, before more lies begin to surface across the face of the Internet. This is Euclid Square Mall – it’s not abandoned, though it has been re-purposed in ways. Though it has indeed been a dead mall since the 90s, these eerily quiet, seemingly abandoned halls are still filled with the chorus ensembles of their equally as eerie, almost post-apocalyptic church groups. In 1997, rumors erupted when talk started that Kaufmann’s would soon be closed, being dragged into expansion plans for a separate shopping center. By 2004, vendors by the name of Outlets USA took over the former Kauffman’s space, moving in if only for a short couple of years. That same year, a proposal was made to include this vacated space as part of a reconstruction project, dealing with a nearby abandoned industrial park. I remember first visiting this mall, waiting for the final store to close. Like this:
Single-Serving Photo Seattle Underground An image of the "Seattle Underground"— the facade seen here was at street level in the mid-1800s The Seattle Underground is a network of underground passageways and basements in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States that was ground level at the city's origin in the mid-19th century. After the streets were elevated these spaces fell into disuse, but have become a tourist attraction in recent decades. History[edit] Start of the Great Seattle Fire, looking south on 1st Ave. near Madison St. Seattle's first buildings were wooden. Brick arches provide the ceiling for the underground corridors and support the hollow street sidewalks For the regrade, the streets were lined with concrete walls that formed narrow alleyways between the walls and the buildings on both sides of the street, with a wide "alley" where the street was. The concrete floor of the former meat market was originally at the level of the wooden platform on the left, but sank over time because of decomposing sawdust fill.