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Franklin Mills shopping mall - Philadelphia, PA (opened May 11th, 1989)

Architect: Cambridge Seven Architects

Branding and Graphic Design: Milton Glaser

Master post: Cameron Toll mall, in Edinburgh, 1984.

Some data:

CAMERON TOLL, Edinburgh, Scotland

DEVELOPER: Gilbert Ash Estates Limited, the Development Division of the GA Group, Glasgow.

OPENED: October, 1984

DESCRIPTION: A low-lying glass castle-like building containing two major anchors, 36 stores and an international food court.

LOCATION: South Edinburgh, Scotland; halfway between the city centre and the ring road

AREA COVERED: 25 acres

DEVELOPMENT COST: 30 Million Pounds

PARKING SPACES: 1,000

SPECIALTY SHOPS & RESTAURANTS: Food court and many specialty shops

ANCHOR TENANTS: Savacentre, Safeway

TOTAL RETAIL AREA: 226,000 sq. ft.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Comprehensive exterior landscaping

including walkways and ponds; as well as a landscaped central courtyard; retention of the Braid Burn Walkway and all existing

trees on the site

ARCHITECT: Michael Laird and Partners, Edinburgh

GRAPHIC DESIGN & COLOR: 0.1. Design and Development Consultants, Limited-Toronto, London and Baltimore

PUBLIC INVESTMENT: 8 thousand pounds

RETAIL PLANNING AND DESIGN: 0.1. Design and Development Consultants, Limited- Toronto, London and Baltimore

Fun fact, the pictures were placed in this article from a local Edinburgh site. I don't claim ownership over any material.

Scan | bonus picture:

‘Laser Battle’ - Multi-level laser tag arcade - Kuzunoha-cho Izumi-shi Osaka, JP (1990s)

Designed by Masahide Iwano

Images 1, 4, 5 & 6 showcase a particularly interesting short-lived design style that I’ve mainly seen only in ‘Bubble Era’ Japan - the grungy, dark, and elaborately-designed ‘Industrial Gothic’ 

Selections from the book, Commercial Building Facades by Sueyoshi Murakami (Shotenkenchiku-sha/Books Nippan) (1993)

'Labyrinth Build' - Nishi-nakasu, Fukuoka - by Ryu Design Project

City Resort Hotel JASMAC PLAZA - Sapporo, Hokkaido - by Mitsuru Kaneko

Maruto the 17th Bldg. - Gion, Kyoto - by Hiroyuki Wakabayashi

Ichi-Yon-Ichi Building - Sendai, Miyagi - by Dam Dan Corp.

YBP Restaurant Court PREZZO - Godo-cho, Tokyo - by YBP Project Design Room

Theater & Hall BUNKAMURA - Shibuya, Tokyo - by Jean Michel Wilmotte

NOIRER MUR SEIKI Bldg. - Amagasaki, Hyogo - by Kenji Miyake

AMERICAN DREAM Nishi Mizuhodai Bldg. - Fujimi, Saitama - by Toshio Miyauchi

AMERICAN DREAM Nishi Mizuhodai Bldg. - Fujimi, Saitama - by Toshio Miyauchi

Cafe & Beauty Parlor AIM'S - Tsuruga-shima-machi, Saitama - by Isao Hosoya & Studio 4

Car Showroom LINUS - Fujiwaradai, Kyoto - by Dentsu Inc.

MY WAY Osawa Bldg. - Shimoshakujii, Tokyo - by Yukio Naitoh

WING Urawa - Urawa, Saitama - by Naohiko Higashi

Notojima Glass Art Museum - Notojima, Ishikawa - by Kiko Mozuna

Commercial Building 'JOULE-A' - Azabu-Ju-Ban, Tokyo - by Edward Suzuki

Christmas displays at the South Bay Galleria - Redondo Beach, CA (late 1980s)

Designed by The Becker Group of Baltimore, MD

It's a very 90's retail Christmas! Selections from the book, 'Christmas Advertising, Marketing & Display' by Martin Pegler (2001)

1. Montebello Town Center mall - Montebello, CA - designed by The Design Centre of Wichita, KS

2, 4, 5 & 10. Bloomingdales - Lexington Ave, NYC - designed by Mike Fisher, Jack Hruska, Harry Medina

3 & 13. Crestwood Plaza mall - St. Louis, MO - designed by The Design Centre of Wichita, KS

6. Sony - Madison Ave, NYC - designed by Christine Belich

7 & 8. ZCMI - Salt Lake City, UT - designed by Mike Stephens

9. Tyson's Corner Center - Tyson's Corner, VA - designed by The Design Centre of Wichita, KS

11. Carson Pirie Scott - Chicago, IL - designed by Rick Schlenther, Ted Georgiou, Susan Kezon

Selections from Excellent Shop Designs - Store & Showroom by Shotenkenchiku-Sha (1989)

1. Bathroom showroom 'XSITE' - designed by Toshiyuki Tanaka

2-3. Jewelry & Clock Shop 'Tenshodo' - designed by Eiichi Fujii

4-5. OA Equipment Showroom 'Ricoh Oa Port' - designed by KID Associates

6. Optician Hogetsudo - designed by Shojiro Ninomiya

7-8. WaiWai Plaza - designer to be added

9. Tableware store 'Savoia Vivre' - designed by Kenjiro Tsuji

10. AV Station CSV Shibuya - designed Keiichi Irie

11. Green Bell multi-store - designer to be added

Swatch store - Via Montenapoleone, 12 (designed 1991, completed 1994)

Designed by Atelier Mendini, mural by Massimo Iosa Ghini

The mural is particularly interesting, since it's a part of a style that Massimo Iosa Ghini coined for his own work, 'Bolidism' - inspired by Italian Futurism and Streamline Moderne.

Interiors designed by Gerhard Design Group (Andrew H. Gerhard)(1980s-1990s)

Scanned from the book, Showcase of Interior Design: Pacific Edition I (1992)

Bar 'Cool' - Madrid, Spain (2001)

Designed by Tomás Alía

Mix of a couple popular and contemporaneously interrelated revival aesthetics; Millennium Disco, Y2K Futurism (expressed mainly in the color palette, typography, some materiality, and facade), and Ultramodern Revival