I am currently researching the architecture and aesthetics of Strip Malls for the design competition I am launching in collaboration with the City-Region Studies Centre (see previous post for details).
The design competition will ask for submissions to reinvent the strip mall. We are looking for innovative strategies for the adaptation and reuse of this abundant yet ailing building stock.
To understand the challenge I went on a photographic field trip around Edmonton to find some ‘sites of potential’…
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Some nice photos there! Know this project? Might be of use: http://www.bigboxreuse.com/
Cheers Brian! Will check out big box reuse… the strip mall is more small box reuse but similar issues at stake.
Big box reuse is awesome!
Excellent Photos !
Also, I wrote this a while back, on the topic of strip mall landscapes…. http://whoadu.de/?p=80
Cheers brian this is great… maybe we could skype sometime and i could bend your ear about strip malls…
The City-Region Studies Centre has an ideas design competition which you might be interested in: “Strip Appeal: Re-inventing the Strip Mall.” http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/crsc/pdf/strip-appealbrief.pdf