Evolution of a Retail Streetscape : DP Architects on Orchard Road, Hardcover ...-image

Evolution of a Retail Streetscape : DP Architects on Orchard Road, Hardcover ...

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Genre: Architecture, Business & Economics Item Weight: 47.2 Oz gtin13: 9781864704624 Publisher: IMAGES Publishing Group Format: Hardcover Item Length: 11.8 in Topic: Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, Industries / Retailing, Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Regional Item Width: 8.8 in Author: Collin Anderson, Fumihiki Maki, Kenneth Frampton ISBN: 9781864704624 Language: English Item Height: 1 in Book Title: Evolution of a Retail Streetscape : DP Architects on Orchard Illustrator: Yes Number of Pages: 172 Pages Publication Year: 2012

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Evolution of a Retail Streetscape : DP Architects on Orchard Road, Hardcover by Anderson, Collin; Frampton, Kenneth (INT); Maki, Fumihiko (FRW), ISBN 1864704624, ISBN-13 9781864704624, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This lavish-looking architectural volume showcases eight development projects created by DP Architects on Singapore's Orchard Road, a landscape of freeway-scale streets and massive shopping malls. As author Collin Anderson puts it, "The shopping centre today is a site where visitors congregate, eat, drink, and become absorbed in an environment of unbounded recreation and consumption." He argues that this is "the heart of urbanism in Asia," confounding more traditional readings of world history and expanding considerably on the idea that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. DP Architects has designed more than twenty building projects on Orchard Road over forty years that combine the US tradition of drive-up shopping malls with the European tradition of the pedestrian boulevard, accomplished by extending the indoor shopping mall's control of space over the public streets. Projects involve outdoor roofs, escalators, lighting, retail, and security. Some readers may see this plan as the welcome return of pedestrian life to a tropical city focused on air-conditioned indoor spaces, a magnificent new Champs-Elysés for the New Asia. The many building plans here are beautifully drawn, on abstract backgrounds in which parking lots do not appear. The photographs are colorful and empty of organic life. Oversize: 9x13". Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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