I know they're old hat for most of you, but I still find multi-story department store entrances fairly novel. Multi-story malls are strangely rare in the Seattle area, and I don't think I visited a single one growing up (the multi-story part of Southcenter didn't exist at the time).
Multi-story department store entrances are certainly strange to me as well, as are multi-story malls in general! It is not that we didn't/don't have them in Houston. There are several malls in Houston which have multiple floors, some were added on after the malls had opened, but none of those were the malls we visited most frequently even if I did visit all the malls which had/have multiple floors. Of those we visited most frequently, Willowbrook Mall, Northwest Mall, Memorial City Mall, and Greenspoint Mall, all have/had a single floor for the mall even if the anchors were multiple floors. Some of Houston's strongest malls are single floor, so that was hardly any kind of hindrance.
ReplyDeleteMalls with carpeted corridors are even more strange to me since no Houston mall has ever had those, AFAIK! It was strange visiting the Vancouver Mall (the other Vancouver, lol) in 2023 because of that!
I do like the stained glass, it is something quite unique for retail! It does look dated in a way, but since stained glass was never used in a widespread manner at malls, AFAIK, I suppose it looks more unique than dated. The wooden roof, OTOH, lol, but I guess that has become trendy again.
Interesting! Maybe multi-story malls were more of an East Coast thing. Around here, Bellevue Square is the only major mall with a proper multi-story design (Southcenter doesn't really count since it was built as a single-story mall and the new addition is a fairly small portion of the mall).
DeleteDon't worry, carpeted malls are weird around here too!
I don't think the concept of stained glass looks dated -- glass art is quite trendy again right now -- but with the exception of the "pixel art" one by London Drugs, the specific designs do look quite dated in my opinion. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Wood paneling has definitely wrapped around into popularity again! It seems to come and go on a very quick cycle compared to other trends. I think modern wood paneling tends to be somewhat lighter than this still (though not as light as the trend from the early 00s). But this still looks like something that you could find in a brand-new building -- just look at the new terminals at PDX and PIT!