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Magazines Archives - 2008 February
Beijing financial district gets
high-end fashion mall
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BEIJING FINANCE STREET HOLDING
COMPANY LTD, a stateowned public company in China, has opened
its high-end fashion mall, Seasons Place. Located in the Xicheng
district of West Central Beijing, the mall hosts a number of
international upmarket brands the likes of Louis Vuitton, Dior,
Gucci and Ermenegildo Zegna.
Said Geoff Morrison, principal and managing director of ‘concept
i’, the company that conceptualised the mall design: “The
project is conceived as a high-end lifestyle destination with
the world’s best international brands on a grand scale. It is
unrivalled in terms of investment in retail interior design.”
The inspiration behind its design, Morrison added, is taken from
traditional Chinese landscape paintings, and is executed “in the
most modern and abstract way” with textured limestone surfaces,
landscape terraces and cascades.
US-based architectural and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill’s has been commissioned to give the 80,000sqm
four-storey mall, with a basement, a soft-curved architecture
featuring one of the country’s largest “spanning skylights”.
“The night illumination is dramatic, projected, using LED colour-change
lighting technology, on the vast skylight structure as a palette
for changing moods and ambience,” Morrison said.
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